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Kotomora

蜥

a lizard

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Readings

On'yomi

  • シャク
  • セキ

Kun'yomi

  • とかげ

Meaning

蜥 centers on a specific animal: a lizard. It is a zoological term with no broad abstract extensions.

Most common words using 蜥

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  • 蜥蜴とかげ

    lizard

  • コモド大蜥蜴コモドおおとかげ

    Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

  • あの声で蜥蜴食らうか時鳥あのこえでとかげくらうかほととぎす

    don't judge a book by its cover

  • アメリカ毒蜥蜴アメリカどくとかげ

    Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum)

  • イエメン大蜥蜴イエメンおおとかげ

    Yemen monitor (Varanus yemenensis)

  • サバンナ大蜥蜴サバンナおおとかげ

    savanna monitor (Varanus exanthematicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); Bosc's monitor

  • ナイル大蜥蜴ナイルおおとかげ

    Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus); water leguaan

  • バルカン蚯蚓蜥蜴バルカンみみずとかげ

    Iberian worm lizard (Blanus cinereus); European worm lizard

  • レース大蜥蜴レースおおとかげ

    lace monitor (Varanus varius, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in eastern Australia); lace goanna

  • 尻棘大蜥蜴しりとげおおとかげ

    black-headed monitor (Varanus tristis); freckled monitor

  • 昔蜥蜴むかしとかげ

    tuatara (primitive lizardlike reptile endemic to New Zealand)

  • 木登蜥蜴きのぼりとかげ

    Ryukyu tree lizard (Japalura polygonata)

  • 棘尾大蜥蜴とげおおおとかげ

    ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus); spiny-tailed monitor

  • 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)

  • 緑細大蜥蜴みどりほそおおとかげ

    emerald tree monitor (Varanus prasinus); green tree monitor

  • 蚯蚓蜥蜴みみずとかげ

    worm lizard; amphisbaenian

  • 角蜥蜴つのとかげ

    horned lizard; horned toad

  • 足無蜥蜴あしなしとかげ

    legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

  • 鎧蜥蜴よろいとかげ

    girdle-tailed lizard

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Study

Etymology

蜥 combines 虫 (insect/reptile) with 析, which likely contributes the sound. The character was created to represent a lizard, a reptile associated with the insect radical.

Meaning mnemonic

The insect radical 虫 on the left suggests a small crawling creature, and 析 on the right looks like an axe splitting wood. Picture a lizard darting out from a split log: 蜥 is a lizard.

Reading mnemonic

For シャク, imagine a lizard basking on a shack in the sun: shack -> シャク, and the lizard warms itself on the wooden shack.