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Word and Radical Components of 蜥蜴

The Chinese word 蜥蜴 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
蜥蜴 xīyì 1. n. lizard

蜥蜴 ⇨ 蜥 + 蜴
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. Only used in 蜥蜴 (short=1)
1. (zh-used2, c)

蜥 ⇨ 虫 + 析
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. insect
2. Variant of 蟲
3. Variant of 虺
1. to split wood
2. to break apart
3. to divide
4. to analyse

蜴 ⇨ 虫 + 易
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. insect
2. Variant of 蟲
3. Variant of 虺
1. (zh-o) Original form of 賜 (to give; to bestow)
2. to exchange; to interchange
3. to change; to alter; to modify
4. Short for 易經 (I Ching)
5. easy; simple; not difficult
     (ant, zh, )
6. gentle; kind
7. effortless; prone to
8. easily; effortlessly
9. (Min) easy; not difficult

析 ⇨ 木 + 斤
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. tree; woody plant
     (syn, zh, )
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
      桌子 。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
      手指 。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
jīn 1. catty, a unit of weight
2.    (Mainland) catty or jin, a traditional unit of weight, equal to 0.5 kilograms
3.    (Hong Kong) catty or kan, a traditional unit of weight, legally defined as equal to 0.60478982 kilograms (公斤 or sometimes approximated as 500 grams)
4.    (Taiwan) catty, a traditional unit of weight, equal to 0.6 kilograms, also equal to 16 taels
5. (archaic) axe; hatchet
      。 - (The artisan) Shi whirled his axe so as to produce a wind, which immediately carried off the mud entirely., ref=Zhuangzi-L
6. keen; shrewd
jīn 7. (zh-only, 斤斤)

易 ⇨ 日 + 勿
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. (star) Sun
2. daytime; time between sunrise and sunset
     日班 (rìbān) - day shift
     (ant, zh, )
3. day; twenty-four hours
4. everyday; daily; day-to-day
5. day of the month
     . (sān yuè sì rì) - March 4
     (syn, zh, )
6. some day; some other time
7. former times; previous times; the past
8. time; period; age
9. Short for 日本 (gloss=Japan; Japanese; Nippo-:)
     中日 詞典 (zhōngrì cídiǎn) - Chinese-Japanese dictionary
10. (obsolete) Short for 日斯巴尼亞 (gloss=Spain)
11. (zh-div, 母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of ltc-l, 日, id=1
12. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Jin, dialectal Wu, dialectal Xiang, vulgar, often in abuses) to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with
     狗日 (gǒurì) - fucking
13. Only used in (l-self-lite, zh, sc=Hant, 日)磾, a Han dynasty-era personal name borne by Jin Midi (lw, zh, 金日磾) and Ma Midi (lw, zh, 馬日磾, tr=-).
14. Variant of 時
1. (literary or formal, imperative) do not; don't
      吸煙 - no smoking (lit. please do not smoke)
2. (literary or Wu) not
     對勿起 (2te veq qi) - Sorry, SH
3. (zh-used, 勿勿)
4. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 莫 (-, t=(imperative) do not; don't)
5. (zh-only, 卹勿)