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Translingual
Han character
猴 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大竹人弓大 (KHONK), four-corner 47234, composition ⿰犭侯)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 715, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20553
- Dae Jaweon: page 1127, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1358, character 11
- Unihan data for U+7334
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡoː): semantic 犭 + phonetic 侯 (OC *ɡoː).
Etymology
The first syllable in 母猴 (OC *mɯʔ ɡoː, “macaque”) and 沐猴 (OC *moːɡ ɡoː, “macaque”) may perhaps be an old pre-initial (Unger, 1985).
Compare Proto-Lolo-Burmese *myukᴸ (“monkey”), which derives from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m(j/r)uk (“monkey”) (Pinault et al., 1997, STEDT).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Gan (Wiktionary): heu2
- Hakka
- Northern Min (KCR): gě
- Eastern Min (BUC): gàu / hèu
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gao2 / gaonn2 / hieo2
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6gheu
- Xiang
- (Changsha, Wiktionary): hou2
- (Hengyang, Wiktionary): hou2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: hóu
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hóu
- Wade–Giles: hou2
- Yale: hóu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hour
- Palladius: хоу (xou)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xoʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (猴兒 / 猴儿)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: hóur
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˊㄦ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hóur
- Wade–Giles: hou2-ʼrh
- Yale: hóur
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hourl
- Palladius: хоур (xour)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: hou2
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xou
- Sinological IPA (key): /xəu²¹/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: ху (hu, I)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xou²⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: hau4
- Yale: hàuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: hau4
- Guangdong Romanization: heo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɐu̯²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: heu3
- Sinological IPA (key): /heu²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: heu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɛu²⁴/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hèu
- Hakka Romanization System: heuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: heu2
- Sinological IPA: /heu̯¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: heu
- Sinological IPA: /heu⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: gě
- Sinological IPA (key): /ke²¹/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gàu / hèu
- Sinological IPA (key): /kau⁵³/, /hɛu⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: gao2
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gáu
- Sinological IPA (key): /kau¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: gaonn2
- Sinological IPA (key): /kãũ²⁴/
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: hieo2
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: há̤u
- Sinological IPA (key): /hieu¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: hieo2
- Sinological IPA (key): /hieu²⁴/
- (Putian)
Note:
- gao2/gaonn2 - vernacular;
- hieo2 - literary.
- Southern Min
- hiô/hô͘ - literary;
- kâu - vernacular.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: gao5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kâu
- Sinological IPA (key): /kau⁵⁵/
- (Teochew)
- Wu
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: hou2
- Sinological IPA (key): /xəu̯¹³/
- (Hengyang)
- Wiktionary: hou2
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɣ̊ɘu̯¹¹/
- (Changsha)
Note:
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: huw
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-ɡˤ(r)o/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoː/
Definitions
猴
- monkey; ape
- naughty child
- (Southern Min) male paramour
- 掠猴 [Hokkien] ― lia̍h-kâu [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to catch an adulterer
- (dialectal) to lean on someone; to pester someone
- (dialectal) to squat like a monkey
- (dialectal) naughty; clever
- (Southern Min) skinny and dark-skinned; ugly as a monkey
- a surname
Synonyms
- (monkey):
- (male paramour):
Compounds
- 倒手仔猴 (Min Nan)
- 刣雞教猴 / 刣鸡教猴 (Min Nan)
- 劉猴 / 刘猴 (Liúhóu)
- 卷尾猴
- 反眼猴
- 吊猴 (Min Nan)
- 吼猴 (hǒuhóu)
- 夜猴
- 小猴子
- 尖嘴猴腮 (jiānzuǐhóusāi)
- 弄鬼弔猴 / 弄鬼吊猴
- 恆河猴 / 恒河猴 (hénghéhóu)
- 懶猴 / 懒猴
- 指猴 (zhǐhóu)
- 掠猴 (Min Nan)
- 木猴而冠
- 杜猴 (Min Nan)
- 棘猴
- 棉猴兒 / 棉猴儿
- 殺雞儆猴 / 杀鸡儆猴 (shājījǐnghóu)
- 殺雞嚇猴 / 杀鸡吓猴 (shājīxiàhóu)
- 殺雞給猴看 / 杀鸡给猴看 (shā jī gěi hóu kàn)
- 殺雞駭猴 / 杀鸡骇猴 (shājīhàihóu)
- 沐猴 (mùhóu)
- 沐猴冠冕 (mùhóuguànmiǎn)
- 沐猴而冠 (mùhóu'érguàn)
- 沐猴衣冠
- 海底猴兒 / 海底猴儿
- 潑猴 / 泼猴
- 牽猴 / 牵猴 (khan-kâu) (Min Nan)
- 狐猴 (húhóu)
- 猴兒 / 猴儿 (hóur)
- 猴兒崽子 / 猴儿崽子
- 猴兒精 / 猴儿精
- 猴子 (hóuzi)
- 猴子似的
- 猴子屁股
- 猴子扮戲 / 猴子扮戏
- 猴孫王 / 猴孙王
- 猴山仔 (Min Nan)
- 猴崽子
- 猴年馬月 / 猴年马月 (hóuniánmǎyuè)
- 猴急 (hóují)
- 猴戲 / 猴戏 (hóuxì)
- 猴拳
- 猴探井
- 猴栗
- 猴棗 / 猴枣 (hóuzǎo)
- 猴猴
- 猴猻 / 猴狲 (hóusūn)
- 猴痘 (hóudòu)
- 猴皮筋
- 猴硐
- 猴筋兒 / 猴筋儿 (hóujīnr)
- 猴腦 / 猴脑 (hóunǎo)
- 猴頭 / 猴头
- 猴頭菇 / 猴头菇 (hóutóugū)
- 猴頭菌 / 猴头菌
- 猴類 / 猴类
- 猴麵包樹 / 猴面包树 (hóumiànbāoshù)
- 猴齊天 / 猴齐天 (Min Nan)
- 猿猴 (yuánhóu)
- 猿猴取月
- 獅虎豹鱉猴狗象鹿 / 狮虎豹鳖猴狗象鹿
- 獮猴 / 狝猴
- 獼猴 / 猕猴 (míhóu)
- 獼猴桃 / 猕猴桃 (míhóutáo)
- 瘦猴 (Min Nan)
- 瘦皮猴 (shòupíhóu)
- 皮猴戲 / 皮猴戏 (píhóuxì)
- 眼鏡猴 / 眼镜猴 (yǎnjìnghóu)
- 着猴 (Min Nan)
- 䆀猴 (Min Nan)
- 紅毛猴 / 红毛猴 (hóngmáohóu)
- 絹猴 / 绢猴
- 羊毛猴
- 老猴
- 耍猴兒 / 耍猴儿
- 草猴 (Min Nan)
- 蝦猴 / 虾猴 (hê-kâu) (Min Nan)
- 衣冠沐猴
- 調猴兒 / 调猴儿
- 貓猴 / 猫猴
- 金絲猴 / 金丝猴 (jīnsīhóu)
- 長尾猴 / 长尾猴
- 阿猴 (Āhóu)
- 非洲綠猴 / 非洲绿猴
- 麵猴 / 面猴 (Min Nan)
See also
References
- “猴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “猴”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
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猴
- monkey
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