蜥 — seok

Parts that make up 蜥

How 蜥 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 蜥 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 虫, 析.

Japanese words with 蜥

• 蜥蜴トカゲ lizard; skink lizard (Scincidae spp.)
• 鎧蜥蜴よろいとかげ girdle-tailed lizard
• 角蜥蜴つのとかげ horned lizard; horned toad
• 昔蜥蜴むかしとかげ tuatara (primitive lizardlike reptile endemic to New Zealand)
• 飛蜥蜴とびとかげ flying dragon (any gliding lizard of genus Draco)
• 毒蜥蜴どくとかげ heloderm (any venomous lizard of genus Heloderma, incl. the gila monster and the beaded lizard)
• 火蜥蜴ひとかげ Salamander (poem by Octavio Paz)
• 襟巻蜥蜴えりまきとかげ frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii); frill-necked lizard
• 足無蜥蜴あしなしとかげ legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)
• 木登蜥蜴きのぼりとかげ Ryukyu tree lizard (Japalura polygonata)
• 蚯蚓蜥蜴みみずとかげ worm lizard; amphisbaenian
• 水大蜥蜴ミズオオトカゲ water monitor (Varanus salvator); common water monitor

Characters sharing the phonetic 析

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “석” in Korean.

Other hanja read “석”

Other hanja with radical 虫