猿
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ape
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 犬 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 猿
- Common rank
- #2,583
- Unicode
- U+733F
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
ape · Heisig RSH #1680
袁 Yuan + pack of wild dogs
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 猿
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心猿意马 | lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (der… | |
| 南方古猿 | Australopithecus | |
| 北京猿人 | Peking ape-man; Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zho… | |
| 无尾猿 | ape | |
| 黑冠长臂猿 | black crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) | |
| 类人猿 | hominid | |
| 人猿 | anthropoid ape | |
| 猿人 | apeman | |
| 程序猿 | (Internet slang) code monkey | |
| 长臂猿 | gibbon; Hylobatidae (gibbon and lesser ape family) | |
| 笼鸟槛猿 | bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner | |
| 猿臂 | arms like those of an ape — muscular, or long and dexterous | |
| 猿猴 | apes and monkeys | |
| 猿玃 | legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls | |
| 玃猿 | legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 袁 — compare how they read.