Kanji
Readingざる
Frequency5%
Used in (60 in total)
baby monkey; small monkey
foolish monkey
mountain monkey; wild monkey; mountain dweller; bumpkin; boor
ninja (esp. those serving the Uesugi clan during the Sengoku period)
howler monkey
gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)
Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra); crested black macaque; Sulawesi crested macaque; black ape
three wise monkeys (who "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil")
tarsier (Tarsius syrichta); specter lemur; spectre lemur
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta); rhesus macaque
say-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)
useless person; good-for-nothing
hear-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)
male monkey
earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)
see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil; the three wise monkeys
cercopithecoid (any Old World monkey of family Cercopithecidae, esp. the guenons of genus Cercopithecus)
crab-eating macaque
see-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)
New World monkey (any monkey of infraorder Platyrrhini)
Old World monkey (any monkey of family Cercopithecidae)
loris (esp. a slow loris)
clay monkey figure
squirrel monkey (esp. the common squirrel monkey, Saimiri sciureus)
any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)
green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus, sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Chlorocebus aethiops)
ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
spider monkey
proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus); long-nosed monkey
siamang (species of gibbon, Symphalangus syndactylus)
brown capuchin; tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)
common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
white-handed gibbon; lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; pongid; ape
hoolock gibbon (either of the two gibbons in genus Hoolock)
flying lemur; colugo
snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus spp.)
mustached monkey (Cercopithecus cephus); moustached guenon
Yakushima macaque (Macaca fuscata yakui)
aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
common brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus); brown lemur
black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata)
Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)
red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer)
black lemur (Eulemur macaco)
red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra)
Formosan rock macaque (Macaca cyclopis); Formosan rock monkey; Taiwanese macaque
woolly monkey (any New World monkey of genus Lagothrix)
snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus spp., esp. the golden snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus roxellana)
pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
crowned lemur (Eulemur coronatus)
Coiba Island howler (Alouatta coibensis)
mantled howler (Alouatta palliata); golden-mantled howling monkey
common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
black-capped squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis)