猿

Meaning

猿 centers on the animal monkey, encompassing both the creature itself and its characteristic traits.

• 猿さる
  N3

  monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; non-human primate

• 類人猿るいじんえん

  anthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape

• 犬猿けんえん

  cats and dogs (as an example of a bad relationship); dogs and monkeys

• 猿渡りさるわたり

  monkey bars; horizontal ladder

• 猿真似さるまね

  indiscriminate imitation; monkey see, monkey do; blind follower

• 日本猿にほんざる

  Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

• 野猿やえん

  wild monkey

• 猿楽さるがく

  sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)

• 猿轡さるぐつわ

  (mouth) gag

• 山猿やまざる

  mountain monkey; wild monkey

• 猿山さるやま

  artificial mountain in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)

• 猿芝居さるしばい

  monkey show

• 栗鼠猿りすざる

  squirrel monkey (esp. the common squirrel monkey, Saimiri sciureus)

• 赤毛猿あかげざる

  rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta); rhesus macaque

• 犬猿の仲けんえんのなか
  N1

  like cats and dogs; (on) very bad terms; relationship of dogs and monkeys

• 猿人えんじん

  ape man

• 猿も木から落ちるさるもきからおちる
  N1

  even monkeys fall from trees; anyone can make a mistake; pride comes before a fall; even Homer sometimes nods

• お猿さんおさるさん

  monkey

• こけ猿こけざる

  foolish monkey

• コイバ吠猿コイバほえざる

  Coiba Island howler (Alouatta coibensis)

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