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蜥

xī

Character

What 蜥 means

1. bound formlizard

Example sentences

• 蜥蜴！
  Lizard!

Words starting with 蜥

• 蜥蜴xī yìlizard
• 蜥形纲xī xíng gāngSauropsida, class within Chordata containing reptiles
• 蜥臀目xī tún mùSaurischia or lizard-hipped dinosaurs, order within superorder Dinosauria
• 蜥易xī yìvariant of 蜥蜴

Words containing 蜥

• 巨蜥jù xīmonitor lizards (family Varanidae)
• 鳄蜥è xīChinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)
• 草原巨蜥cǎo yuán jù xīSavannah monitor (Varanus exanthematicus)
• 火蜥蜴huǒ xī yìsalamander
• 鬣蜥liè xīiguana
• 虺蜥huǐ xīvenomous snake; fig. vicious person

Characters built on 析

These share the phonetic component 析 (xī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 晰xīclear; distinct
• 皙xī(literary) fair-skinned; of light complexion
• 淅xī(onomatopoeia) sound of rain, sleet etc

Characters that look like 蜥

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 蜂fēngbee; wasp
• 蝴húused in 蝴蝶
• 蜿wānused in 蜿蜒
• 蜊líclam
• 锵qiāngtinkling of small bells
• 蝾róngsalamander

Sounds the same

Read xī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 息breath; news; interest (on an investment or loan)
• 西west
• 希to hope; to admire; variant of 稀
• 吸to breathe; to suck in; to absorb
• 悉in all cases; know
• 惜to cherish; to begrudge; to pity
• 析to separate; to divide; to analyze
• 夕(bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. xì
• 晰clear; distinct
• 稀sparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 牺sacrifice
• 昔former times; the past; Taiwan pr. xí