Keyword
ape
- Frequency
- #3048
- Strokes
- 13
Readings
yuán
Mnemonic
犭 (animal) gives the meaning and 袁 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
猿
ape
猿人
apeman
猿猴
apes and monkeys
人猿
anthropoid ape
长臂猿
gibbon; Hylobatidae (gibbon and lesser ape family)
类人猿
hominid
北京猿人
Peking ape-man; Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店 (Zhōukǒudiàn) in 1921
心猿意马
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
猿臂
arms like those of an ape — muscular, or long and dexterous