| 猿 | [ yuán ] ape |
| 猿人 | [ yuán rén ] apeman |
| 猿猴 | [ yuán hoú ] apes and monkeys |
| 猿玃 | [ yuán jué ] legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls |
| 猿臂 | [ yuán bì ] arms like those of an ape — muscular, or long and dexterous |
| ⇒ 人猿 | [ rén yuán ] anthropoid ape |
| ⇒ 北京猿人 | [ beǐ jīng yuán rén ] Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4] in 1921 |
| ⇒ 南方古猿 | [ nán fāng gǔ yuán ] Australopithecus |
| ⇒ 心猿意馬 | [ xīn yuán yì mǎ ] lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.), to have ants in one's pants, hyperactive, adventurous and uncontrollable |
| ⇒ 無尾猿 | [ wú weǐ yuán ] ape |
| ⇒ 玃猿 | [ jué yuán ] legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls |
| ⇒ 程序猿 | [ chéng xù yuán ] (Internet slang) code monkey |
| ⇒ 籠鳥檻猿 | [ lóng jiàn yuán ] bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner |
| ⇒ 長臂猿 | [ cháng bì yuán ] gibbon, Hylobatidae (gibbon and lesser ape family) |
| ⇒ 類人猿 | [ leì rén yuán ] hominid |
| ⇒ 黑冠長臂猿 | [ heī guān cháng bì yuán ] black crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) |