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猿 kanji
monkey
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
エン
Kun readings
さる
Variant forms
猨Words with 猿
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —類人猿Popularanthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape
- —犬猿の仲Popularlike cats and dogs; (on) very bad terms; relationship of dogs and monkeys
- —猿人ape man
- —心猿passion; passions
- —野猿wild monkey
- —三猿three wise monkeys (who "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil")
- —猿臂long arm; monkey arm
- —犬猿cats and dogs (as an example of a bad relationship); dogs and monkeys
- —猿腦monkey brain (eaten as a delicacy, medicine, etc.)
- —猿猴monkey (esp. a gibbon); hand of the puppeteer (puppet theatre); kappa; menstrual period
- —孤猿lone monkey; stray monkey
- —玄猿gibbon
- —猿害damages inflicted by monkeys (on crops, etc.)
- —人類猿anthropoid ape
- —原猿類prosimian
- —真猿類simian; anthropoid
- —意馬心猿it is hard to keep one's worldly desires and passions in check
- —直立猿人a pithecanthrope
- —心猿意馬(being unable to control) one's worldly desires and passions
- —三猿主義the principle of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not"