沐猴

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Chinese

phonetic monkey
trad. (沐猴)
simp. #(沐猴)

Etymology

The ancient Chu dialect word for "macaque". The first syllable in 沐猴 (OC *moːɡ ɡoː) and 母猴 (OC *mɯʔ ɡoː, “macaque”) (found in pre-Qin texts) may be an old pre-initial (Schuessler, 2007).

Likely cognate with 母猴 (OC *mɯʔ ɡoː, “macaque”), 獼猴 (OC *mnel ɡoː, “macaque”) and 馬猴马猴 (mǎhóu, “macaque”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (33)
Final () (3) (137)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter muwk huw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muk̚/ /ɦəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/muk̚/ /ɦəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/muk̚/ /ɣəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/məwk̚/ /ɦəw/
Li
Rong
/muk̚/ /ɣu/
Wang
Li
/muk̚/ /ɣəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/muk̚/ /ɣə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
muk6 hau4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ huw ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə-ɡˁ(r)o/
English monkey

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9328 5141
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moːɡ/ /*ɡoː/

Noun

沐猴

  1. (literary) macaque

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
もく > もっ
Hyōgai
こう
Hyōgai
on'yomi

Noun

(もっ)(こう) (mokkō

  1. monkey

Proverbs