猴
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monkey; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 犬 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 猴
- Common rank
- #1,603
- Unicode
- U+7334
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
monkey · Heisig RSH #2637
pack of wild dogs + 侯 marquis
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 猴
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山中无老虎，猴子称大王 | in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king (idiom); (depending on the source, th… | |
| 猴年马月 | long time off; time that will never come | |
| 水猴子 | mythical monster that preys on swimmers | |
| 猴面包树 | African baobab; monkey-bread tree (Adansonia digitata) | |
| 猴儿精 | (dialect) shrewd; clever | |
| 金丝猴 | golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) | |
| 眼镜猴 | tarsier monkey | |
| 知了猴 | (coll.) newly-emerged cicada nymph | |
| 猴子 | monkey; CL:隻|只[zhi1] | |
| 猴儿 | little devil | |
| 猴儿 | monkey | |
| 杀鸡给猴看 | lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment)… | |
| 长鼻猴 | proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), aka long-nosed monkey | |
| 卷尾猴 | white-headed capuchin (Cebus capucinus) | |
| 猴年 | Year of the Monkey (e.g. 2004) | |
| 猴王 | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to th… | |
| 猴米 | (slang) (loanword) homie | |
| 猴精 | (coll.) clever; shrewd | |
| 猴子偷桃 | "monkey steals the peach" (martial arts), distracting an opponent with one hand and seizin… | |
| 猴皮筋 | (coll.) rubber band |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 侯 — compare how they read.