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| Processed by: | richwarm (2024-04-12 09:49:18 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 76488 - submitted by 'kbaiko' >> My physical dictionaries and some online dictionaries say the monkey sense is also yu2, though zdic says yu4. "legendary monkey" - I assume the "legendary" part comes from 西游记, though it could predate that. In the beginning of 西游记, 孙悟空 becomes sworn brothers with 6 other demon kings on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, one of them is 禺狨王 which is described as a legendary monkey. But in old dictionaries it's just defined as a type of (non-legendary) monkey 说文解字: 母猴 正字通: 禺似獼猴而大，赤目長尾，山中多有之 (this implies it's a real species) Some videos where you can hear it pronounced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzzRtSqBo3A - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcCy6tOG-o - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4SqCj52BQs |
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- 禺 禺 [[yu2]] /(archaic) district/ + 禺 禺 [[yu2]] /(archaic) district/(old) type of monkey/ - 禺 禺 [yu4] /legendary monkey of ancient China/ |