蜴
Parts that make up 蜴
How 蜴 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 蜴 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 虫, 易.
Japanese words with 蜴
- 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 易
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “척”
Other hanja with radical 虫
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