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| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
蛇 see styles |
shé she2 she hebi(p); ja; kuchinawa; hemi(ok); hebi へび(P); じゃ; くちなわ; へみ(ok); ヘビ |
More info & calligraphy: Snake / Serpent(1) (じゃ is more associated with serpent and large snakes) snake; (2) serpent; large snake; (surname) Hebi sarpa, a serpent, snake. |
龍 龙 see styles |
lóng long2 lung riyou / riyo りよう |
More info & calligraphy: Dragon(out-dated kanji) (1) dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); (2) naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; (personal name) Riyou A dragon, dragon-like, imperial; tr. for nāga, which means snake, serpent; also elephant, elephantine, serpent-like, etc., cf. 那. |
ヘビ see styles |
hebi ヘビ |
More info & calligraphy: Hebi |
毒蛇 see styles |
dú shé du2 she2 tu she dokuja; dokuhebi どくじゃ; どくへび |
More info & calligraphy: Viperpoisonous snake; poisonous serpent A poisonous snake.; Poisonous snakes, the four elements of the body— earth, water, fire, wind (or air)— which harm a man by their variation, i. e. increase and decrease. Also, gold. |
八岐大蛇 see styles |
bā qí dà shé ba1 qi2 da4 she2 pa ch`i ta she pa chi ta she yamatanoorochi やまたのおろち |
Yamata no Orochi, serpent with eight heads and eight tails from mythological section of Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology) |
巳 see styles |
sì si4 ssu mi(p); shi み(P); し |
6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake; ancient Chinese compass point: 150° (1) the Snake (sixth sign of the Chinese zodiac); the Serpent; (2) (obsolete) (See 巳の刻) hour of the Snake (around 10am, 9-11am, or 10am-12 noon); (3) (obsolete) south-southeast; (4) (obsolete) fourth month of the lunar calendar; (female given name) Mi snake |
蜃 see styles |
shèn shen4 shen shin |
giant clam; (mythology) clam-monster said to breathe out a vapor that forms a mirage of buildings Mirage; sea-serpent; frog. |
冠鷲 see styles |
kanmuriwashi; kanmuriwashi かんむりわし; カンムリワシ |
(kana only) crested serpent eagle (Spilornis cheela) |
初巳 see styles |
hatsumi はつみ |
first Serpent day of the year; (given name) Hatsumi |
大蛇 see styles |
daija だいじゃ |
big snake; (large) serpent; (personal name) Daija |
戾龍 戾龙 see styles |
lì lóng li4 long2 li lung |
mythical evil serpent; evil dragon in Western mythology, cf Revelations 14:12 |
蛇蝎 see styles |
dakatsu だかつ |
(1) serpent (snake) and scorpion; (2) detestation |
蛇蠍 see styles |
dakatsu だかつ |
(1) serpent (snake) and scorpion; (2) detestation |
蛇鵰 蛇雕 see styles |
shé diāo she2 diao1 she tiao |
(bird species of China) crested serpent eagle (Spilornis cheela) |
那伽 see styles |
nà qié na4 qie2 na ch`ieh na chieh naka なか |
(female given name) Naka nāga. Snake, dragon, elephant. It is tr. by 龍 dragon and by 象 elephant. (1) As dragon it represents the chief of the scaly reptiles; it can disappear or be manifest, increase or decrease, lengthen or shrink; in spring it mounts in the sky and in winter enters the earth. The dragon is of many kinds. Dragons are regarded as beneficent, bringing the rains and guarding the heavens (again Draco); they control rivers and lakes, and hibernate in the deep. nāga and mahānāga are titles of a Buddha, (also of those freed from reincarnation) because of his powers, or because like the dragon he soars above earthly desires and ties. One of his former reincarnations was a powerful poisonous dragon which, out of pity, permitted itself to be skinned alive and its flesh eaten by worms. (2) A race of serpent-worshippers. |
十二獸 十二兽 see styles |
shí èr shòu shi2 er4 shou4 shih erh shou jūnishū |
The twelve animals for the "twelve horary branches" with their names, hours, and the Chinese transliterations of their Sanskrit equivalents; v. 大集經 23 and 56. There are also the thirty-six animals, three for each hour. The twelve are: Serpent 蛇 巳, 9-11 a.m. 迦若; Horse 馬午, 11-1 noon 兜羅; Sheep 羊未, 1―3 p.m. 毘梨支迦; Monkey 猴申, 3-5 p.m. 檀尼毘; Cock 鶏酉, 5-7 p.m. 摩迦羅; Dog 大戌, 7-9 p.m. 鳩槃; Boar 豕亥, 9-11 p.m.彌那; Rat 鼠子, 11-1 midnight 彌沙; Ox 牛丑 1-3 a.m. 毘利沙; Tiger (or Lion) 虎寅, 3―5 a.m. 彌倫那; Hare 兎卯, 5-7 a.m. 羯迦吒迦; Dragon 龍辰, 7-9 a.m 絲阿. |
妙音天 see styles |
miào yīn tiān miao4 yin1 tian1 miao yin t`ien miao yin tien Myōon Ten |
(妙音樂天) Sarasvatī, the wife or female energy of Brahmā. Also called 辨才天 (辨才天女) Jap. Benzaiten, or Benten; goddess of eloquence, learning, and music, bestower of the Sanskrit language and letters, and the bestower of 財 riches; also the river goddess. Sometimes considered as masculine. Honoured among the seven gods of luck, and often represented as mounted on a dragon or a serpent. |
巳の刻 see styles |
minokoku みのこく |
(exp,n) (archaism) hour of the Snake (around 10am, 9-11am, or 10am-12 noon); hour of the Serpent |
海蛇座 see styles |
umihebiza うみへびざ |
(astron) Hydra (constellation); the Sea Serpent |
烏洛迦 乌洛迦 see styles |
wū luò jiā wu1 luo4 jia1 wu lo chia uraka |
烏羅伽 uraga, going on the belly, a serpent. |
蛇心檀 see styles |
shé xīn tán she2 xin1 tan2 she hsin t`an she hsin tan dashindan |
serpent-sandal |
蛇遣座 see styles |
hebitsukaiza へびつかいざ |
(astron) Ophiuchus (constellation); the Serpent Bearer |
迦樓羅 迦楼罗 see styles |
jiā lóu luó jia1 lou2 luo2 chia lou lo karura |
garuḍa; 'a mythical bird, the chief of the feathered race, the enemy of the serpent race, the vehicle of Vishṇu.' M. W. Tr. as golden-winged, with an expanse of 3,360,000 li, carrying the ruyi pearl or talisman on its neck; among other accounts one says it dwells in great trees and feeds on snakes or dragons. Also 迦婁羅; 迦留羅; 迦嘍荼; 伽樓羅; 揭路荼; 誐嚕拏 (or 蘗嚕拏). The association of the garuḍa, like the phoenix, with fire makes it also a symbol of flame 迦樓羅炎. |
佛口蛇心 see styles |
fó kǒu shé xīn fo2 kou3 she2 xin1 fo k`ou she hsin fo kou she hsin bukku nishitenjashin |
words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced; malicious and duplicitous A Buddha's mouth but a serpent's heart. |
十二因緣 十二因缘 see styles |
shí èr yīn yuán shi2 er4 yin1 yuan2 shih erh yin yüan jūni innen |
Dvādaśaṅga pratītyasamutpāda; the twelve nidānas; v. 尼 and 因; also 十二緣起; 因緣有支; 因緣率連; 因緣棘園; 因緣輪; 因緣重城; 因緣觀; 支佛觀. They are the twelve links in the chain of existence: (1) 無明avidyā, ignorance, or unenlightenment; (2) 行 saṃskāra, action, activity, conception, "dispositions," Keith; (3) 識 vijñāna, consciousness; (4) 名色 nāmarūpa, name and form; (5) 六入 ṣaḍāyatana, the six sense organs, i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind; (6) 觸 sparśa, contact, touch; (7) 受 vedanā, sensation, feeling; (8) 愛 tṛṣṇā, thirst, desire, craving; (9) 取 upādāna, laying hold of, grasping; (10) 有 bhava, being, existing; (11) 生 jāti, birth; (12) 老死 jarāmaraṇa, old age, death. The "classical formula" reads "By reason of ignorance dispositions; by reason of dispositions consciousness", etc. A further application of the twelve nidānas is made in regard to their causaton of rebirth: (1) ignorance, as inherited passion from the beginningless past ; (2) karma, good and evil, of past lives; (3) conception as a form of perception; (4) nāmarūpa, or body and mind evolving (in the womb); (5) the six organs on the verge of birth; (6) childhood whose intelligence is limited to sparśa, contact or touch; (7) receptivity or budding intelligence and discrimination from 6 or 7 years; (8) thirst, desire, or love, age of puberty; (9) the urge of sensuous existence; (10) forming the substance, bhava, of future karma; (11) the completed karma ready for rebirth; (12) old age and death. The two first are associated with the previous life, the other ten with the present. The theory is equally applicable to all realms of reincarnation. The twelve links are also represented in a chart, at the centre of which are the serpent (anger), boar (ignorance, or stupidity), and dove (lust) representing the fundamental sins. Each catches the other by the tail, typifying the train of sins producing the wheel of life. In another circle the twelve links are represented as follows: (1) ignorance, a blind woman; (2) action, a potter at work, or man gathering fruit; (3) consciousness, a restless monkey; (4) name and form, a boat; (5) sense organs, a house; (6) contact, a man and woman sitting together; (7) sensation, a man pierced by an arrow; (8) desire, a man drinking wine; (9) craving, a couple in union; (10) existence through childbirth; (11) birth, a man carrying a corpse; (12) disease, old age, death, an old woman leaning on a stick. v. 十二因緣論 Pratītya-samutpāda śāstra. |
薩裒煞地 萨裒煞地 see styles |
sà póu shà dì sa4 pou2 sha4 di4 sa p`ou sha ti sa pou sha ti satsubusachi |
sarpauṣadhi, serpent-medicine, said to have been provided by (the Buddha when he was) Indra, as a python, in giving his flesh to feed the starving. A monastery in Udyāna built on the reputed spot. Also 薩裒施殺. |
蛇遣い座 see styles |
hebitsukaiza へびつかいざ |
(astron) Ophiuchus (constellation); the Serpent Bearer |
うみへび座 see styles |
umihebiza うみへびざ |
(astron) Hydra (constellation); the Sea Serpent |
ウロボロス see styles |
uroborosu ウロボロス |
uroboros; ouroboros (image of a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail) |
烏洛迦旃檀 乌洛迦旃檀 see styles |
wū luò jiā zhān tán wu1 luo4 jia1 zhan1 tan2 wu lo chia chan t`an wu lo chia chan tan uraka sendan |
uraga(sāra)-candana, serpent-sandal, a kind of sandal wood, used as a febrifuge. |
Variations: |
dakatsu だかつ |
(1) serpent (snake) and scorpion; (2) detestation |
鼻路波阿叉 see styles |
bí lù bō ā chā bi2 lu4 bo1 a1 cha1 pi lu po a ch`a pi lu po a cha |
Virūpākṣa. One of the lokapāla, or guardians of the four cardinal points of Mount Sumeru. In China known as 廣目 wide-eyed, red in colour with a small pagoda in his right hand, and a serpent in his left; in China worshipped as one of the twenty-four Deva Ārya 天尊. Also, a name for Maheśvara or Rudra (Śiva). Cf. 毘 and 髀. |
カンムリワシ see styles |
kanmuriwashi カンムリワシ |
(kana only) crested serpent eagle (Spilornis cheela) |
へびつかい座 see styles |
hebitsukaiza へびつかいざ |
(astron) Ophiuchus (constellation); the Serpent Bearer |
シーサーペント see styles |
shiisaapento / shisapento シーサーペント |
sea serpent |
憂陀伽娑羅旃檀 忧陀伽娑罗旃檀 see styles |
yōu tuó qié suō luó zhān tán you1 tuo2 qie2 suo1 luo2 zhan1 tan2 yu t`o ch`ieh so lo chan t`an yu to chieh so lo chan tan udakashara sendan |
serpent-sandal |
シー・サーペント see styles |
shii saapento / shi sapento シー・サーペント |
sea serpent |
Variations: |
umihebiza うみへびざ |
{astron} Hydra (constellation); the Sea Serpent |
Variations: |
yamatanoorochi; yamatanoorochi やまたのおろち; ヤマタノオロチ |
(kana only) eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology) |
Variations: |
hebitsukaiza へびつかいざ |
{astron} Ophiuchus (constellation); the Serpent Bearer |
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shiisaapento; shii saapento / shisapento; shi sapento シーサーペント; シー・サーペント |
sea serpent |
Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.
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