Refers to any small, long-armed ape of the family Hylobatidae. In everyday Japanese, the katakana form テナガザル is standard.
At the zoo, a gibbon was swinging from tree to tree.
white-handed gibbon; lar gibbon
hoolock gibbon
Katakana spelling is common for animal names and is the usual written form.
Kanji spelling is rare; the word is usually written in kana.
Compound of 手長 (てなが, 'long-armed') and 猿 (さる, 'monkey'), with rendaku voicing of さる to ざる.