Kanji
N1 13 strokes Grade 8 freq #1772

monkey

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

dog inu

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

ape man
anthropoid ape; anthropoid
gibbon
mustached monkey (Cercopithecus cephus); moustached guenon
Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra); crested black macaque
lone monkey; stray monkey
earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)
langur
anthropoid ape; anthropoid
pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape
like cats and dogs; (on) very bad terms
useless person; good-for-nothing
black-capped squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis)
common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
mantled howler (Alouatta palliata); golden-mantled howling monkey
Coiba Island howler (Alouatta coibensis)
the pot calling the kettle black; people who live in glass houses throwing stones

Example sentences

We saw the monkey at the zoo.

I saw some monkeys climbing the tree.

Apes rank above dogs in intelligence.

Apes are intelligent.