Yax Lizard
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The Yax lizard or Jacques lizard is a Chinese internet phenomenon related to the Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures. It mocks a musical dance program that excessively praised the Chinese government.
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Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 亞克蜥 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 亚克蜥 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Yax Lizard | ||||||||
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Jacques lizard | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 雅克蜥 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 雅克蜥 | ||||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||||
Uyghur | ياخشى | ||||||||
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The creature was supposedly a Komodo dragon. The name is derived from "yakexi" (Chinese: 亚克西; pinyin: yàkèxī), which is the Chinese transliteration of a Uyghur term "yaxshi" (Uyghur: ياخشى), which means "good" or "great"; "xi" also means "lizard" in Chinese.