猴
monkey
12 strokes.
Readings
- コウ (on reading): 沐猴にして冠す (もっこうにしてかんす) to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); 沐猴 (もっこう) monkey
- さる (kun reading)
Components
- ⺨
- 侯
- 乞 radical beg
- ⺅ radical person, left-side form of 人
- ⺨ radical dog, left-side form of 犬
- 矢 radical arrow
Words using 猴
- 沐猴にして冠す (もっこうにしてかんす) to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it)
- 沐猴 (もっこう) monkey
- 猿猴鶏頭 (えんこうげいとう) love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus)
- 猿猴月を取る (えんこうつきをとる) to try and reach above one's station and fail
- 猿猴捉月 (えんこうそくげつ) trying to reach above one's station and failing
6 words in all.