Save Gender Feminine & Masculine Usage Chinese Scripts 狸貓, 李貓(Chinese) Pronounced Pron. LEE-MAO [key] Meaning & History From Chinese (狸貓) límāo meaning "civet, leopard cat" which combines (狸) lí meaning "raccoon", or (李) lǐ meaning "plum" and (貓) māo meaning "cat". Other character combinations can form this name as well.