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猴

  • hóu (hou²) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄏㄡˊ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • hou² Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • ху (hu, I) Mandarin, Dongan, Cyrillic
  • hau⁴ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • hèu Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • gě Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • gàu Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • hèu Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • hiô Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • hô͘ Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • kâu Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • gao⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁶gheu Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • hóu Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • hóu Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • hou² Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • hóu Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • hour Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • хоу Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /xoʊ̯³⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • hóur Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Erhua
  • ㄏㄡˊㄦ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Erhua
  • hou²-ʼrh Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Erhua
  • hourl Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Erhua
  • хоур Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Erhua
  • /xɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Erhua

Where it comes from

形聲漢字（上古 *ɡoː）：意符 犭 + 聲符 侯 (上古 *ɡoː) .

第一個音節母猴 (上古 *mɯʔ ɡoː, “獼猴”)和沐猴 (上古 *moːɡ ɡoː, “獼猴”)，可能是古老的前綴 (Unger, 1985)。

對照原始緬彝語 *myukᴸ (“猴子”)，其衍生自原始藏緬語 *m(j/r)uk (“猴子”) (Pinault et al., 1997, STEDT)。

釋義

  1. 猴子

    Similar: 猴子, 猴兒, 猴三兒, 毛猴, 猴娃兒, 猴娃子, 猴兒子, 山娃兒, 猴山娃兒, 孫悟空, 山猴子, 猴猴兒

  2. 調皮的小孩
  3. Min Nan 男性情人
  4. dialectal 倚靠某人；糾纏某人
  5. dialectal 像猴子一樣蹲
  6. dialectal 調皮，頑皮
  7. Min Nan 瘦小和皮膚黝黑，醜得像猴子
  8. 姓氏

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {猴},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E7%8C%B4},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}