猴 hóu
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hóu
noun
monkey; ape
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Animal 兽
Notes: A general term for 灵长类 primates (CC-CEDICT '猴'; Guoyu '猴' n; Baidu Baike '猴'; Unihan '猴') -
hóu
verb
lie on the side and take a nap
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Beijing dialect (Guoyu '猴' v 1) -
hóu
verb
to sit down like a monkey
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '猴' v 2) -
hóu
adjective
naughty
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '猴' adj)
Contained in
- 猴儿精(猴兒精) shrewd; clever
- 猴戏(猴戲) a monkey show
- 猴拳 Hou Quan; Monkey Fist
- 猴年马月(猴年馬月) long time off; time that will never come
- 卷尾猴 white-headed capuchin (Cebus capucinus)
- 猴面包树(猴麵包樹) boabab tree; monkey-bread tree; Adansonia digitata
- 猴子偷桃 monkey steals the peach (martial arts), distracting an opponent with one hand and seizing his testicles with the other
- 猕猴(獼猴) a macaque
- 猴痘病毒 monkey pox virus
- 狐猴 lemur
- 沐猴而冠 a monkey wearing a hat; worthless person in imposing attire
- 熊猴 Assamese macaque
- 獮猴 macaque
- 猿猴 apes and monkeys
- 日本猕猴(日本獼猴) Japanese macaque
- 猴头菇(猴頭菇) Hericium erinaceus
- 耍猴 to get a monkey to perform tricks; to put on a monkey show; to make fun of; to tease
- 长鼻猴(長鼻猴) proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), aka long-nosed monkey
- 疣鼻金丝猴(疣鼻金絲猴) golden snub-nosed monkey
- 跗猴 tarsier
- 僧帽猴 capuchin monkey
- 猴皮筋 rubber band
- 杀鸡吓猴(殺雞嚇猴) killing the chicken to scare the monkey; to punish an individual as an example to others
- 白臀叶猴(白臀葉猴) red-shanked douc
- 杀鸡儆猴(殺雞儆猴) killing the chicken to warn the monkey; to punish an individual as an example to others
- 猴急 impatient; anxious; fretful; agitated
- 申猴 Year 9
- 杀鸡警猴(殺雞警猴) killing the chicken to warn the monkey; to punish an individual as an example to others
- 猴子 monkey
- 抓猴 to catch an adulterous man in the act
- 眼镜猴(眼鏡猴) tarsier monkey
- 猴儿(猴兒) a little devil ; a monkey
- 金丝猴(金絲猴) golden snub-nosed monkey
- 豚尾猕猴(豚尾獼猴) pig-tailed macaque
- 普通猕猴(普通獼猴) rhesus macaque
- 山中无老虎，猴子称大王(山中無老虎，猴子稱大王) in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king
- 群猴猴族 Qauqaut, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
- 台湾猕猴(台灣獼猴) Formosan rock macaque
- 猴孩子 little devil
- 猴年 Year of the Monkey
- 穿靴猕猴(穿靴獼猴) booted macaque
- 恒河猴(恆河猴) rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta); rhesus monkey; river Ganges monkey of north India
- 白颊猕猴(白頰獼猴) white-cheeked macaque
- 猕猴桃(獼猴桃) kiwi fruit; Chinese gooseberry
- 杀鸡给猴看(殺雞給猴看) to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; to make an example of somebody (by punishment) to frighten others
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- 第三回 Chapter 3 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 35
- 第六回 Chapter 6 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 29
- 第一回 Chapter 1 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 28
- 第二回 Chapter 2 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 18
- 第四回 Chapter 4 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 15
- 第七回 Chapter 7 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 15
- 第十四回 Chapter 14 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 15
- 第五十八回 Chapter 58 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 13
- 第五十二回 Chapter 52 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 11
- 第五十七回 Chapter 57 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 11
Collocations
- 众猴 (眾猴) 眾猴都道 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第一回 Chapter 1 — count: 28
- 母猴 (母猴) 宋人有請為燕王以棘刺之端為母猴者 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左上第三十二 Chapter 32: A Collection of Sayings III — count: 20
- 沐猴 (沐猴) 為沐猴與狗鬥 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十七 蓋諸葛劉鄭孫毌將何傳 Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He — count: 10
- 猴道 (猴道) 石猴道 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第一回 Chapter 1 — count: 9
- 小猴 (小猴) 二百個小猴 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 9
- 石猴 (石猴) 化作一個石猴 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第一回 Chapter 1 — count: 8
- 猴属 (猴屬) 猴屬也 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷九十 烏桓鮮卑列傳 Volume 90: Treatise on the Wuhuan, Xianbei — count: 6
- 猴猿 (猴猿) 上有兮猴猿 — Songs of Chu 楚辭, 卷第十七 九思 Chapter 17: Nine Longings — count: 6
- 天猴 (天猴) 混天猴陷宜君 — History of Ming 明史, 卷二百三十九 列傳第一百二十七 張臣 董一元 杜桐 蕭如薰 達雲 官秉忠 柴國柱 李懷信 Volume 239 Biographies 127: Zhang Chen, Dong Yiyuan, Du Tong, Xiao Ruxun, Da Yun, Guan Bingzhong, Chai Guozhu, Li Huaixin — count: 6
- 群猴 (群猴) 群猴食其餘 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百八十九 列傳第二百四十八 外國五 占城 眞臘 蒲甘 邈黎 三佛齊 闍婆南毗 勃泥 注輦 丹眉流 Volume 489 Biographies 248: Foreign States 5 - Champa, Siem Reap, Bagan, Miaoli, Srivijaya, Sheponanpi, Brunei, Chola, Nakhon Si Thammarat — count: 5