The kanji 猫猫 fundamentally represents "cat" or "feline". It's a direct and literal representation of the animal.

・On-yomi (音読み): ビョウ (byou) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): ねこ (neko)

⚫︎ 猫 (neko) Translation: Cat ⚫︎ 子猫 (koneko) Translation: Kitten ⚫︎ 猫カフェ (nekokaffe) Translation: Cat cafe

The kanji 猫猫 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字, keisei moji). ⚫︎ The left side (⺨, also written as 犬) is a radical that indicates "animal," specifically a mammal or quadruped. ⚫︎ The right side (苗) is the phonetic component, indicating the sound and providing a hint to the pronunciation. It originally meant "seedling" or "sprout". ⚫︎ This combination creates a character referring to an animal, and whose pronunciation is associated with the sound of "苗".