monkey
猿 centers on the animal monkey, encompassing both the creature itself and its characteristic traits.
猿 combines the animal radical 犭 with 袁, which likely contributes the sound エン. The character specifically denotes a monkey.
The animal radical 犭 hints at a beast, and the right side 袁 looks like a long-armed creature with a tail. Picture a monkey swinging through trees.
For エン, imagine an energetic monkey named En, swinging from branch to branch: En -> エン.
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape
cats and dogs (as an example of a bad relationship); dogs and monkeys
monkey bars; horizontal ladder
indiscriminate imitation; monkey see, monkey do; blind follower
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
wild monkey
sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)
(mouth) gag
mountain monkey; wild monkey
artificial mountain in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)
monkey show
squirrel monkey (esp. the common squirrel monkey, Saimiri sciureus)
rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta); rhesus macaque
monkey
foolish monkey
Coiba Island howler (Alouatta coibensis)
common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
masturbation addict
hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)