Word Meaning 聞か猿

きかざる ki ka zaru

聞か猿 is read as きかざる (ki ka zaru) and means hear-no-evil monkey (one of the three wise monkeys).

Meaning

English

  1. hear-no-evil monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)

Reading

Kana

きかざる

Romaji

ki ka zaru

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 30 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 準2級 Rank 126062 Priority T

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

見猿聞か猿言わ猿

みざるきかざるいわざる

see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil

聞き応え

ききごたえ

worth listening to

聞き及ぶ

ききおよぶ

to hear of

聞いて極楽見て地獄

きいてごくらくみてじごく

don't believe everything you hear

聞き納め

ききおさめ

hear something for the last time

聞き尽くす

ききつくす

to hear all about

さる

bathhouse prostitute

類人猿

るいじんえん

anthropoid ape

新世界猿

しんせかいざる

New World monkey (any monkey of infraorder Platyrrhini)

白手手長猿

しろててながざる

white-handed gibbon

日本猿

にほんざる

Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

手長猿

てながざる

gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)