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There are 12 total results for your snake serpent search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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shé
    she2
she
 hebi(p); ja; kuchinawa; hemi(ok); hebi
    へび(P); じゃ; くちなわ; へみ(ok); ヘビ

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Snake / Serpent
snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]
(1) (じゃ is more associated with serpent and large snakes) snake; (2) serpent; large snake; (surname) Hebi
sarpa, a serpent, snake.


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lóng
    long2
lung
 riyou / riyo
    りよう

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Dragon
Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon; (bound form) dinosaur
(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

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 hebi
    ヘビ

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Hebi
(1) snake; (2) serpent; large snake

毒蛇

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dú shé
    du2 she2
tu she
 dokuja; dokuhebi
    どくじゃ; どくへび

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Viper
viper
poisonous 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.

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    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

大蛇

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 daija
    だいじゃ
big snake; (large) serpent; (personal name) Daija

蛇蝎

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 dakatsu
    だかつ
(1) serpent (snake) and scorpion; (2) detestation

蛇蠍

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 dakatsu
    だかつ
(1) serpent (snake) and scorpion; (2) detestation

那伽

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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.

巳の刻

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 minokoku
    みのこく
(exp,n) (archaism) hour of the Snake (around 10am, 9-11am, or 10am-12 noon); hour of the Serpent

佛口蛇心

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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.

Variations:
蛇蠍
蛇蝎

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 dakatsu
    だかつ
(1) serpent (snake) and scorpion; (2) detestation

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 12 results for "snake serpent" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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