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蜴 is a phonosemantic compound in which the radical 虫 on the left indicates a creeping creature, typically an insect, reptile, or similar animal, and the component 易 on the right supplies the sound yì. In practice, the character is virtually never used alone; it combines with 蜥 to form the disyllabic word 蜥蜴 (xīyì), the standard term for a lizard. It serves solely as a concrete biological noun without figurative or extended meanings.
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