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The character 蜴 is a phono-semantic compound. Its left-side radical 虫 indicates the semantic category of insects, reptiles, or creeping animals, while the right-side component 易 provides the pronunciation "yì" and originally carried meanings of change or ease. Historically, 蜴 has primarily been used to form specific animal names, most notably in the disyllabic compound 蜥蜴 (xīyì), meaning "lizard". In standard usage, it functions as a concrete biological noun without extended figurative meanings.