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
- N2蛇口Popularfaucet; tap
- —蛇の目Popularbull's-eye (pattern); double ring (pattern); umbrella with bull's-eye pattern
- —蛇毒snake venom; snake toxin
- —蛇腹bellows (of an accordion, camera, etc.); cornice; rickrack; ricrac; wave-shaped braid; pleated shape; accordion pleats; pleated flexible design
- —神蛇sacred snake
- —毒蛇venomous snake; poisonous snake
- —大蛇big snake; (large) serpent
- —蛇管coil; hose
- —蛇体body of a snake; serpentine
- —蛇籠gabion; cage filled with stones
- —王蛇boa (snake)
- —蛇皮snake skin; sanshin
- —蛇頭snakeheads; Chinese criminal gangs, esp. for smuggling Chinese immigrants
- —蛇紋石serpentine (mineral)
- —蛇皮線sanshin; Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen
- —蛇の鬚dwarf mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus)
- —蛇床子Cnidium monnieri fruit
- —蛇腹糸tightly twisted thread
- —蛇紋岩serpentinite
- —蛇結茨Caesalpinia decapetala var. japonica