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

Rime
Character 沐 猴
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 東 (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/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muk̚/ /ɣə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mù hóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 muk6 hau4
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

Derived terms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
沐 猴
もく > もっ
Hyōgaiji		 こう
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

沐(もっ)猴(こう) • (mokkō) 

  1. monkey

Proverbs
Proverbs
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