烏貓

See also: 乌猫

Chinese

		a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void	cat
trad. (烏貓)		烏	貓
simp. (乌猫)		乌	猫

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o͘-niau

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘-niau
  - Tâi-lô: oo-niau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oniaw
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ niãu⁴⁴/

Noun

烏貓

(literally) black cat
(Taiwanese Hokkien) a woman who is fashionable, trendy or popular
(Taiwanese Hokkien, obsolete) a bad girl

Coordinate terms

烏狗／乌狗 (“fashionable/trendy/popular man”)

Derived terms

烏貓姊仔／乌猫姊仔

References

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “烏貓”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
“Entry #6342”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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