hóu
monkey
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 侯 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə-gˤ(r)o | huw | hóu | monkey |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 9.4185% of movies
1785th most common character in movies
2187th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7334 |
Shuowen | “，夔也。从犬，矦聲。” |
Sources
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