沐猴

Chinese

		phonetic	monkey
trad. (沐猴)		沐	猴
simp. #(沐猴)		沐	猴

Etymology

The ancient Chu dialect word for "macaque". The first syllable in 沐猴 (OC *moːɡ ɡoː) and 母猴 (OC *mɯʔ ɡoː, “macaque”) (found in pre-Qin texts) may be an old pre-initial (Schuessler, 2007).

Likely cognate with 母猴 (OC *mɯʔ ɡoː, “macaque”), 獼猴 (OC *mnel ɡoː, “macaque”) and 馬猴／马猴 (mǎhóu, “macaque”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mùhóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ ㄏㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶ hau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùhóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄏㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùhóu
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-hou²
    • Yale: mù-hóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhhour
    • Palladius: мухоу (muxou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹ xoʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mùhóur
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ ㄏㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mùhóur
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴-hou²-ʼrh
    • Yale: mù-hóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muhhourl
    • Palladius: мухоур (muxour)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹ xɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: muk⁶ hau⁴
    • Yale: muhk hàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹ hau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶ heo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚² hɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: muwk huw

Rime
Character	沐	猴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	莫卜切	戸鉤切
Baxter	muwk	huw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muk̚/	/ɦəu/
Pan Wuyun	/muk̚/	/ɦəu/
Shao Rongfen	/muk̚/	/ɣəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwk̚/	/ɦəw/
Li Rong	/muk̚/	/ɣu/
Wang Li	/muk̚/	/ɣəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muk̚/	/ɣə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù	hóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	muk6	hau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːɡ  ɡoː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	猴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hóu
Middle Chinese	‹ huw ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-ɡˁ(r)o/
English	monkey
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沐	猴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9328	5141
Phonetic component	木	侯
Rime group	屋	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	木
Old Chinese	/*moːɡ/	/*ɡoː/

Noun

沐猴

1. (literary) macaque

Synonyms

• 猱 (náo)
• 獼猴／猕猴 (míhóu)
• 猢猻／猢狲 (húsūn)

Derived terms

• 沐猴冠冕 (mùhóuguànmiǎn)
• 沐猴而冠 (mùhóu'érguàn)
• 沐猴衣冠
• 衣冠沐猴

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
沐	猴
もく > もっ Hyōgai	こう Hyōgai
on'yomi

Noun

沐(もっ)猴(こう) • (mokkō) 

1. monkey

Proverbs

Proverbs

• 沐猴(もっこう)にして冠(かん)す (mokkō ni shite kansu)