[OT] Does "Mii" mean "Tiger" in Japanese?

[Artemis of Arcadia]

Does "Mii" mean "Tiger" in Japanese?
In "Galaxy Express 999", there is a tiger-striped cat named "Mii-kun".
My Japanese pen-pal has a tiger-striped cat named "Mii-ko".

So, does "Mii" mean "Tiger"? Please help me! (I wanna name my new cat
"Mii-chan", but if it doesn't mean tiger, I'm not going to name it that. I'll
just name it Rum Tum Tugger [been watching too much "CATS"].)
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[RKoren1030]

Tiger is "Tora" in Japanese Kanji. "Mi" (sans extra "i") can be an adjective
for Beautiful. But so far, I don't know what "Mii" (with second i) means.

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In article <19990830181629...@ng-cc1.aol.com>,

meta...@aol.com (Artemis of Arcadia) wrote:
> Does "Mii" mean "Tiger" in Japanese?
> In "Galaxy Express 999", there is a tiger-striped cat named
"Mii-kun".
> My Japanese pen-pal has a tiger-striped cat named "Mii-ko".
>
> So, does "Mii" mean "Tiger"? Please help me! (I wanna name my
new cat
> "Mii-chan", but if it doesn't mean tiger, I'm not going to name it
that. I'll
> just name it Rum Tum Tugger [been watching too much "CATS"].)

hmm unless the name is written in kanji i can't say but:

Tora = tiger in japanese

and variations on the word:

toradoshi - year of the Tiger
toragari - tiger hunt
torafu - tiger stripes
toraneko = tiger type cat ; tabby cat

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[Jerry Shaw]

meta...@aol.com (Artemis of Arcadia) wrote:

>Does "Mii" mean "Tiger" in Japanese?
> In "Galaxy Express 999", there is a tiger-striped cat named "Mii-kun".
> My Japanese pen-pal has a tiger-striped cat named "Mii-ko".

I was only able to find a translation of "Mii" as a Japanese name. There
appears to be no word in Japanese for "Mii."

>Artemis

Jerry

[Neolexor]

Jerry Shaw (jns...@earthlink.net) wrote:

:
It can also be used for sounds though... IIRC that little critter
in MKR that Hikaru befriends (and later names Hikari) keeps saying "Mii"
...I wonder if the name Mii-ko has something to do with the sound the kitty
was making. Traditionally that would be "nyan" and kitties are generally
nick named nyan-chan but that wouldn't be a proper name for a cat (normally)
so maybe she was named after the unusually high meow-ing sound she was
making... just an idea...

nexor (who like making theories... ;)

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