The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;

— T.S. Eliot

Are there any naming conventions in Chinese for your cats?

I have done some cursory researches on the Chinese Internet (thank goodness for [government-censored] Baidu and [ditto] Soso), and I find that in general naming of cats is not much different from how your local zoo’s panda is being named.

In short it is usually either a repetition of a same letter, like Haohao (好好) — think pandas in a zoo; or a letter prefaced by Xiao 小 (i.e. Little), e.g. Xiaohu (小虎), Little Tiger.

Do you have a cat with a Chinese name? Discuss.

喵喵. Miaomiao.