HSK 5 · Nature

猴子 hóuzi “monkey” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 猴子 means

  1. monkey

Measure word 只 zhī · 一只猴子 yì zhī hóuzi

How to say 猴子

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale猴hóu2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own子zineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

猴子 in a sentence

  1. 猴子喜欢香蕉。

    Hóuzi xǐhuan xiāngjiāo.

    Monkeys love bananas.

    Sentence #5576806 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 猴子爬上了树。

    Hóuzi pá shàng le shù.

    The monkey climbed up a tree.

    Sentence #1372495 from Tatoeba

  3. 我们在动物园里看到了猴子。

    Wǒmen zài dòngwùyuán lǐ kàndào le hóuzi.

    We saw monkeys at the zoo.

    Sentence #873216 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 猴子 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 猴 (hóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
猴hóumonkey
  • 犭dog form of 犬 · quǎnMeaning part
  • 侯marquis · hóuSound part

犭 hints at the meaning (dog); 侯 (hóu) hints at the sound. Compare it with hóu.

The character 子 (zi) with each of its parts in a different colour
子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子 “chair”
  • 了clear · le
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA baby with its arms out and its legs wrapped up.

How to write 猴子

猴 12 strokes · 子 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

猴子 (hóuzi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 猴子 (hóuzi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 猴子

Words with 子

儿子érzi · son椅子yǐzi · chair桌子zhuōzi · table杯子bēizi · cup妻子qīzi · wife孩子háizi · child本子běnzi · book子zi · (common noun suffix)裤子kùzi · pants帽子màozi · hat

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FAQs

猴子 (hóuzi) means “monkey”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hóuzi: hóu with a 2nd tone, then zi with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 猴子 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 只 (zhī). For example, one monkey is 一只猴子 (yì zhī hóuzi).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type houzi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 猴子 from the suggestions. Typing houzi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
猴子 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.