猴子
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]| monkey | child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (猴子) | 猴 | 子 | |
| simp. #(猴子) | 猴 | 子 | |
| alternative forms | 猴則/猴则 (-tseq) | ||

Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): hou2 zi3
- (Nanjing, Nanjing Pinyin): hóuzii
- (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): хузы (huzɨ, I-II)
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hau4 zi2
- Gan (Wiktionary): heu2 zi
- Xiang
- (Changsha, Wiktionary): hou2 zr
- (Hengyang, Wiktionary): hou2 zr
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin: hóuzi
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˊ ˙ㄗ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hóuzi̊h
- Wade–Giles: hou2-tzŭ5
- Yale: hóu-dz
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hour.tzy
- Palladius: хоуцзы (xouczy)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xoʊ̯³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/
- Homophones:
猴子
瘊子
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: hou2 zi3
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xouz
- Sinological IPA (key): /xəu²¹ t͡sz̩⁵³/
- (Nanjing)
- Nanjing Pinyin: hóuzii [Phonetic: hǒuzii]
- Nanjing Pinyin (numbered): hou2 zii0 [Phonetic: hou3 zii0]
- Sinological IPA (key): /xəɯ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sz̩/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: хузы (huzɨ, I-II)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xou²⁴ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: hau4 zi2
- Yale: hàuh jí
- Cantonese Pinyin: hau4 dzi2
- Guangdong Romanization: heo4 ji2
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɐu̯²¹ t͡siː³⁵/
- Homophones:
猴子
瘊子
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: heu2 zi
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɛu²⁴ t͡sz̩²/
- (Nanchang)
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: hou2 zr
- Sinological IPA (key): /xəu̯¹³ t͡sz̩³/
- (Hengyang)
- Wiktionary: hou2 zr
- Sinological IPA (key): /xɘu̯¹¹ t͡sz̩³/
- (Changsha)
Noun
[edit]猴子
- monkey (Classifier: 隻/只 m)
- (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu) die (cube used in games of chance)
- (Central Plains and Lanyin Mandarin, dialectal Gan, dialectal Hakka, dialectal Jin) praying mantis
- (dialectal Wu) boy
- (ethnic slur, slang, derogatory) Southeast Asian (people)
- (Taiwanese Mandarin, slang) ill-bred teenager
Synonyms
[edit]Dialectal synonyms of 猴子 (“monkey”) [map]
Derived terms
[edit]- 小猴子
- 山上無老虎,猴子稱大王 / 山上无老虎,猴子称大王
- 猴子似的
- 猴子屁股
- 猴子扮戲 / 猴子扮戏
- 生猴子 (shēng hóuzi)
- 越南猴子 (Yuènán hóuzi)
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