Yax Lizard
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A Komodo dragon | |||||||||
| 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 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.
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.