In Chinese, the word “monkey” generally refers to a mammalian animal with bushy hair. It is usually used to denote an animal or beast, and may be written with different character variants including 猴 (hóu), 猪 (xū), 龙 (lóng), 马 (mǎ), 鹿 (lú) and 老虎 (lǎo hǔ).