猴
猴 — hu
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 원숭이 후
- Romanization
- hu
- English
- monkey, ape; monkey-like
- Mandarin
- hóu
- Japanese on'yomi
- コウ, ゴ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さる
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 犬 (94, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7334
Japanese words with 猴
- 沐猴もっこう monkey
- 猿猴えんこう monkey (esp. a gibbon); hand of the puppeteer (puppet theatre); kappa
- 金糸猴きんしこう golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
- 猿猴鶏頭えんこうげいとう love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus); tassel flower; velvet flower
- 猿猴捉月えんこうそくげつ trying to reach above one's station and failing; trying to accomplish something beyond one's abilities and failing; monkey catching (a reflection of) the moon (in the water)
- 猿猴月を取るえんこうつきをとる to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns)
- 沐猴にして冠すもっこうにしてかんす to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); a monkey wearing a crown
- 猿猴が月を取るえんこうがつきをとる to try and reach above one's station and fail; a monkey catches (a reflection of) the moon (in the water)
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)