Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- hóu
English
- monkey, ape
- monkey
- monkey-like
- CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- monkey
粵語
- 一類好似人嘅動物，屬於哺乳綱靈長目，手腳靈活，多數有尾，有人會將佢同猩猩混淆（量詞：隻）
Words containing 猴
- 猴子hau4 zi2
monkey
- 猴急hau4 gap1
impatient
- 猴擒hau4 kam4
anxious (spoken)
- 獼猴桃nei4 hau4 tou2
kiwi fruit
- 猴戲hau4 hei3
monkey show
- 猴痘hau4 dau6
monkeypox; mpox
- 眼鏡猴ngaan5 geng2 hau4
tarsier monkey
- 猴子偷桃hau4 zi2 tau1 tou4
"monkey steals the peach" (martial arts), distracting an opponent with one hand and seizing his testicles with the other
- 猴年hau4 nin4
Year of the Monkey (e.g. 2004)
- 猴車hau4 ce1
(coll.) overhead ropeway with suspended seats, used to transport workers in a mine
- 猴米hau4 mai5
(slang) (loanword) homie
- 猴王hau4 wong4
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]
- 猴兒hau4 ji4
little devil
- 猴票hau4 piu3
- 猴精hau4 zing1
(coll.) clever; shrewd
- 抓猴zaau2 hau4
(Tw) to catch an adulterous man in the act (from Taiwanese 掠猴, Tai-lo pr. [lia̍h-kâu])
- 熊猴hung4 hau4
Assamese macaque
- 猴拳hau4 kyun4
Hou Quan - "Monkey Fist" - Martial Art
- 耍猴saa2 hau4
to get a monkey to perform tricks
- 申猴san1 hau4
Year 9, year of the Monkey (e.g. 2004)
- 狐猴wu4 hau4
lemur
- 猿猴jyun4 hau4
apes and monkeys
- 嬰猴jing1 hau4
galago; bush baby
- 猴皮筋hau4 pei4 gan1
(coll.) rubber band