蛇

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Noun 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Noun 3.3 Etymology 3 3.3.1 Noun 3.3.2 Kanji 3.3.2.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

蛇 (radical 142 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中戈十心 (LIJP), four-corner 5311₁)

1. snake

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1080, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32964
• Dae Jaweon: page 1548, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2845, character 8
• Unihan data for U+86C7

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɛː˩/

[edit] Hanzi

蛇 (Yale se4, yi4)

1. snake

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

pemi > ɸemi > hemi.

[edit] Noun

蛇 (hiragana へみ, romaji hemi)

1. a snake

[edit] Etymology 2

From earlier hemi. Medial /m/ looses nasal quality becoming a plosive.

[edit] Noun

蛇 (hiragana へび, romaji hebi)

1. a snake; a serpent

[edit] Etymology 3

kutinapa > kutinaɸa > kutinawa > kuchinawa. From the verb kuchi- (“‘to rot’”) nominalized and napa (“‘string, cord’”). Literally "rotten string" based on the appearance of a snake.

[edit] Noun

蛇 (hiragana くちなわ, romaji kuchinawa, historical hiragana くちなは)

1. a snake

[edit] Kanji

蛇 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: じゃ (ja), い (i), だ (da)
• Kun: へび (hebi), くちなわ (kuchinawa)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

蛇 (hangeul 사, 이, revised sa, i, McCune-Reischauer sa, i, Yale sa, i)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

蛇 (pinyin chí (chi2), shé (she2), tuó (tuo2), yí (yi2), Wade-Giles ch'ih², she², t'o², i²)

[edit] Compounds

• 蛇油 (shéyoú)
• 蛇神

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

蛇 (xà)