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Chinese
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
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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猴
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
hóu
|
Middle
Chinese
|
‹ huw ›
|
Old
Chinese
|
/*mə-ɡˁ(r)o/
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| 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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
|
沐
|
猴
|
| Reading #
|
1/1
|
1/1
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| No.
|
9328
|
5141
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Phonetic
component
|
木
|
侯
|
Rime
group
|
屋
|
侯
|
Rime
subdivision
|
0
|
0
|
Corresponding
MC rime
|
木
|
|
Old
Chinese
|
/*moːɡ/
|
/*ɡoː/
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Noun
沐猴
- (literary) macaque
Synonyms
Derived terms
Japanese
Noun
沐猴 • (mokkō)
- monkey
Proverbs