IDENTITY
猴hóumonkey
HSK 4Top 1850
CORE MEANING
monkey
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.monkeyHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 犭animal radical (quǎn)
- strokes
- 12
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰犭侯
- animal
- gives the sound hóu
USAGE
Common words
猴子hóuzimonkey
孙悟空Sūn WùkōngSun Wukong (Monkey King)
Graded examples
猴子会爬树。Hóuzi huì pá shù.HSK4
Monkeys can climb trees.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 候
LEARNING
Memory aid
The animal (犭) noble as a lord (侯) — the clever monkey.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1850
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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