猴

猴 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大竹人弓大 (KHONK), four-corner 4723₄, composition ⿰犭侯)

• KangXi: 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡoː) : semantic 犭 + phonetic 侯 (OC *ɡoː).

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).

猴

1. monkey; ape
2. naughty child
3. (Min Nan) male paramour
4. (dialectal) to lean on someone; to pester someone
5. (dialectal) to squat like a monkey
6. (dialectal) naughty; clever
7. (Min Nan) skinny and dark-skinned; ugly as a monkey
8. a surname

• (monkey):

• (Chinese zodiac signs) 鼠 (shǔ), 牛 (niú), 虎 (hǔ), 兔 (tù), 龍／龙 (lóng), 蛇 (shé), 馬／马 (mǎ), 羊 (yáng), 猴 (hóu), 雞／鸡 (jī), 狗 (gǒu), 豬／猪 (zhū) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese zodiac)}

• “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–
• “Entry #8596”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. monkey

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• On: ご (go)
• Kun: さる (saru, 猴)

猴 (eum 후 (hu))

1. monkey, macaque

猴: Hán Nôm readings: hầu

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