猿 — Chinese character
猿
yuán
ape
- Pinyin
- yuán
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 犭 袁
- Formation
- pictophonetic — animal; meaning component 犭; sound component 袁
- Japanese
- 猿 as a kanji
Common words with 猿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 猿人 | yuán rén | apeman |
| 猿猴 | yuán hóu | apes and monkeys |
| 人猿 | rén yuán | anthropoid ape |
| 长臂猿 (長臂猿) | cháng bì yuán | gibbon; Hylobatidae (gibbon and lesser ape family) |
| 类人猿 (類人猿) | lèi rén yuán | hominid |
| 心猿意马 (心猿意馬) | xīn yuán yì mǎ | lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.); to have ants in one's pants |
| 猿臂 | yuán bì | arms like those of an ape — muscular, or long and dexterous |
| 无尾猿 (無尾猿) | wú wěi yuán | ape |
| 猿玃 | yuán jué | legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls |
| 玃猿 | jué yuán | legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls |
| 程序猿 | chéng xù yuán | (Internet slang) code monkey |
| 笼鸟槛猿 (籠鳥檻猿) | lóng niǎo jiàn yuán | bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner |
English words written with 猿
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.