Kanji1 / 11
蛇 kanji
snake, serpent, hard drinker
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ジャダイヤ
Kun readings
へび
Variant forms
虵Words with 蛇
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —蛇心仏口being cunning and spiteful, yet honey-tongued with feigned kindness
- —蛇の目傘paper umbrella (with a bull's-eye design)
- —蛇の目蝶satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas); grayling
- —蛇腹縫いpleated stitch
- —蛇腹伏せpleated stitch
- —蛇の目の砂sand circle around the ring
- —蛇の道は蛇the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one; it takes a thief to catch a thief
- —大葉蛇の鬚Ophiopogon planiscapus (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
- —灰吹きから蛇が出るunexpected things can come from unexpected places; small things can lead to unexpectedly large consequences
- —鬼が出るか蛇が出るかGod only knows what may happen
- —蛇篭gabion; cage filled with stones
- —蛇ノ目bull's-eye (pattern); double ring (pattern); umbrella with bull's-eye pattern
- —蛇踊りdragon dance (e.g. in the Nagasaki Kunchi festival)
- —蛇の道はヘビthe wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one; it takes a thief to catch a thief
- —蛇の道はへびthe wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one; it takes a thief to catch a thief