lizard

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

易 sound component

  Sound component

  

easy

Definitions

 

lizard; see 蜥蜴[xī​yì]

Most common words with 蜴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蜥蜴

lizard

lizard

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lek

yek

lizard


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4897% of movies

2927th most common character in movies

4597th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+8734


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