猩猩 in English
- orangutan / (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin
Character breakdown
- 猩 ape
How it used to be written
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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你爸爸是一个大猩猩。
Your father is a gorilla.
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可可不是一只普通的猩猩。
Koko is not an ordinary gorilla.
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圈养导致大猩猩生病。
Captivity makes gorillas sick.
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我们的遗传基因真的和黑猩猩几乎一样吗?
Is it true that our genetic heritage is almost the same as that of chimpanzees?
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我观察到一只黑猩猩剥了一根香蕉并吃了它。
I observe a chimpanzee peel a banana and eat it.
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虽然猩猩不懂得开口说话,但牠们能用其他方式和人类沟通。
Gorillas cannot use their lips and tongues to speak, but they can communicate with people in other ways.