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Key facts
- Hanyu pinyin
- hóu
- Wade giles
- hou
- Ipa
- [xo ̌ ʊ]
- Romanization
- hèu
- Yale romanization
- hàuh
- Jyutping
- hau4
- Hokkien poj
- hiô / hô͘ / kâu
- Fuzhou buc
- hèu / gàu
- Jian ou romanized
- gě
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * mə-ɡˤ(r)o
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Zodiac monkey, showing the hóu (猴) character for monkey The monkey (猴) is the ninth animal in the 12-year cycle of Chinese zodiac, which is part of the traditional Chinese calendar. The year of the monkey is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 申.
Years and the five elements
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monkey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.