Usage of the character 猿
yuán
猿
[蝯]
- variant of 猿 (yuán)
yuán
猿
[猨]
- variant of 猿 (yuán)
yuán
猿
[猿]
- ape
yuánjué
猿玃
[猿玃]
- legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls
rényuán
人猿
[人猿]
- anthropoid ape
juéyuán
玃猿
[玃猿]
- legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls
yuánrén
猿人
[猿人]
- apeman
yuánbì
猿臂
[猿臂]
- arms like those of an ape — muscular, or long and dexterous
yuánhóu
猿猴
[猿猴]
- apes and monkeys
lèirényuán
类人猿
[類人猿]
- hominid
chángbìyuán
长臂猿
[長臂猿]
- gibbon
- Hylobatidae (gibbon and lesser ape family)
chéngxùyuán
程序猿
[程序猿]
- (Internet slang) code monkey
wúwěiyuán
无尾猿
[無尾猿]
- ape
lóngniǎojiànyuán
笼鸟槛猿
[籠鳥檻猿]
- bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner
xīnyuányìmǎ
心猿意马
[心猿意馬]
- lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.)
- to have ants in one's pants
- hyperactive
- adventurous and uncontrollable
Nánfāng Gǔyuán
南方古猿
[南方古猿]
- Australopithecus
Běijīngyuánrén
北京猿人
[北京猿人]
- Peking ape-man
- Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店 ( Zhōukǒudiàn) in 1921
hēiguānchángbìyuán
黑冠长臂猿
[黑冠長臂猿]
- black crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus)