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Keyword
monkey
Frequency
#1772
Strokes
13
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
430
Readings
エン67%
さる33%
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
猿さる
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
Noun
猿ましら
monkey
Noun
犬けん猿えんの仲なか
like cats and dogs; (on) very bad terms; relationship of dogs and monkeys
Expression
類るい人じん猿えん
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape
Noun
犬けん猿えん
cats and dogs (as an example of a bad relationship); dogs and monkeys
Noun
猿さる渡わたり
monkey bars; horizontal ladder
Noun
猿真似さるまね
indiscriminate imitation; monkey see, monkey do; blind follower
Noun
日本にほん猿ざる
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
Noun
野や猿えん
wild monkey
Noun
猿さる楽がく
sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries); noh
Noun
猿さる轡ぐつわ
(mouth) gag
Noun
山やま猿ざる
mountain monkey; wild monkey
Noun
猿さる山やま
artificial mountain in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)
Noun
猿さる芝しば居い
monkey show; bad acting; overacting; unconvincing performance; farce; clumsy subterfuge
Noun
栗鼠りす猿ざる
squirrel monkey (esp. the common squirrel monkey, Saimiri sciureus)
Noun
赤あか毛げ猿ざる
rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta); rhesus macaque
Noun
猿さる回まわし
showman who trains performing monkeys
Noun
尾お巻まき猿ざる
any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)
Noun
輪わ尾お狐きつね猿ざる
ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
Noun
三さん猿えん
three wise monkeys (who "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil")
Noun
蜘蛛くも猿ざる
spider monkey
Noun
猿さる捕とり茨いばら
Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla)
Noun
猿さるの腰こし掛かけ
polypore (bracket fungus, esp. of family Polyporaceae)
Noun