猴 (hóu)
monkey
How 猴 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 犭 — dog
- Traditional
- 猴
- Simplified
- 猴 (unchanged)
Components
- 犭 dog
- 亻 human
- 矢 arrow
Common words using 猴
- 猴子 hóuzi
- monkey; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- 獼猴桃 míhóutáo
- kiwi fruit; Chinese gooseberry
- 猴兒 hóuér
- little devil
- 猴王 hóuwáng
- Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 ji4]
- 獼猴 míhóu
- macaque
- 殺雞儆猴 shājījǐnghóu
- lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others; pour encourager les autres
- 殺雞給猴看 shājīgěihóukàn
- lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others
- 熊猴 xiónghóu
- Assamese macaque
- 狐猴 húhóu
- lemur
- 猴年 hóunián
- Year of the Monkey (e.g. 2004)
- 猴急 hóují
- impatient; to be in a rush (to do sth); anxious
- 猴戲 hóuxì
- monkey show
猴 in a sentence
山上有很多猴子，小心你的食物。
Shānshàng yǒu hěnduō hóuzi, xiǎoxīn nǐ de shíwù.
“There are many monkeys on the mountain, be careful with your food.”
How common is 猴?
猴 is the 2,182nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.7% of all running text.
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