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猴子

hóu zi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 只

猴子 (hóu zi) means "monkey". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 猴子 means

1. monkey

The characters in 猴子

• 猴hóumonkey
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 猴子爬上了树。
  The monkey climbed up a tree.
• 猴子爬树容易。
  It's easy for monkeys to climb trees.
• 猴子喜欢香蕉。
  Monkeys are fond of banana.
• 我们都是猴子。
  We're all monkeys.
• 我的猴子逃跑了！
  Wǒ de hóuzi táopǎo le!
  My monkey ran away!
• 猴子屁股坐不住。
  The monkey cannot sit still.

Words starting with 猴子

• 猴子偷桃hóu zi tōu táo"monkey steals the peach" (martial arts), distracting an opponent with one hand and…

Words containing 猴子

• 水猴子shuǐ hóu zimythical monster that preys on swimmers
• 山中无老虎，猴子称大王shān zhōng wú lǎo hǔ , hóu zi chēng dà wángin the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king (idiom)…

Sounds the same

Read hóu zi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 瘊子wart

Where 猴子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Animals & nature (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hóu zi correctly.
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