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Usage of the character 猿

yuán
[蝯]
  • variant of 猿 (yuán)
yuán
[猨]
  • variant of 猿 (yuán)
yuán
[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)