Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yuán
English
- ape
- ape
- ape
粵語
- 動物靈長目人猿總科通稱，有時會同馬騮混為一談，實際上猿係冇尾而馬騮有
Variants
Words containing 猿
- 猿人jyun4 jan4
apeman
- 長臂猿coeng4 bei3 jyun4
gibbon
- 程序猿cing4 zeoi6 jyun4
(Internet slang) code monkey
- 類人猿leoi6 jan4 jyun4
hominid
- 人猿jan4 jyun4
anthropoid ape
- 無尾猿mou4 mei5 jyun4
ape
- 猿猴jyun4 hau4
apes and monkeys
- 猿臂jyun4 bei3
arms like those of an ape — muscular, or long and dexterous
- 心猿意馬sam1 jyun4 ji3 maa5
lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.)
- 猿玃jyun4 fok3
legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls
- 北京猿人bak1 ging1 jyun4 jan4
Peking ape-man
- 南方古猿naam4 fong1 gu2 jyun4
Australopithecus
- 玃猿fok3 jyun4
legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls
- 籠鳥檻猿lung4 niu5 laam6 jyun4
bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner
- 黑冠長臂猿hak1 gun1 coeng4 bei3 jyun4
black crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus)