The phrase "a miao" is not correct or usable in written English as it lacks context and clarity.
It could potentially be used in a context discussing a cat or a sound a cat makes, but it is not standard English.
Example: "I heard a miao coming from the other room, and I knew my cat was hungry."
Alternatives: "a meow" or "a cat sound".
Visit to a Miao settlement & a poppy field; chat with an opium farmer; facts about the opium market.
The most important popular revolt against the central government was one led by Zhang Xiumei, a Miao, in 1855.
For instance, part of the cost of the Hidden Tribes of China tour in April and October (14 days from $4,895) will go to buy a water buffalo for a Miao village.
There are any number of splendid scenes: a Miao festival, a Daoist monk performing a clandestine ritual, the life of a ranger who has retired to the mountain forests to preserve them.
The creative spark is obvious the first time you see a Miao.
A Miao painting often contains hundreds of tiny symbols, and they fly across the paper like some kind of secret language.
It begins with a wordless tableau in which a man (Miao Tien), his face sagging with misery, walks into a room and slumps into a chair, exhaling doleful plumes of smoke from his cigarettes.
Mr. Tsai presents a tableau of three lonely people who turn out, as if unbeknownst to themselves, to be related -- a mother (Lu Hsiao-ling), a father (Miao Tien), and their son Xiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng).
No human studies have reported on the relationship between in utero dioxin exposure and AGD in offspring, whereas AGD has been inversely associated with prenatal exposure to other environmental endocrine disruptors, namely phthalates, dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), and bisphenol A (BPA) (Miao et al. 2011; Swan et al. 2005; Torres-Sanchez et al. 2008).
To be polite, the writer was obliged to smoke some opium with an elderly Miao.
Now Jianwei Miao, a physicist at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and his colleagues have created a computer algorithm to do just that.
