へび
Meanings
Noun
1. snake
じゃ is more associated with serpent and large snakes
2. serpent; large snake
Kanji used
snake
Pitch accent
Top 3600
Used in vocabulary (43 in total)
snakelike; snaky; serpentine
poisonous snake; poisonous serpent
albino Japanese rat snake
sea snake; worm eel (Ophichthidae spp.); snake eel
unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one
the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one
snake charmer
to stir up trouble for oneself; (lit.) to scare out a snake by poking at the brush
snake charmer
snakelike; snaky; serpentine
unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
state of uncertainty; limbo; leaving unfinished with the intention of inflicting suffering; dragging out tortuously; (lit.) half-killing a snake
snake venom; snake toxin
Serpens (constellation); the Snake
false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha); mock strawberry
viper (esp. a pitless viper)
snakeskin pattern
python; rock snake
lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)
blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake; fools rush in
Japanese four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese striped snake
black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake
to stir up trouble for oneself; (lit.) to scare out a snake by poking at the brush
spectacled cobra; Indian cobra; Asian cobra (Naja naja)
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)
caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha); mock strawberry
false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha); mock strawberry
dobsonfly (esp. species Protohermes grandis)
Japanese odd-scaled snake (Achalinus spinalis); Peters' odd-scaled snake; grey burrowing snake
sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes)
Enneapterygius etheostomus (species of threefin blenny)
krait (esp. the Taiwanese banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus)
king snake (any snake of genus Lampropeltis)
milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
cerastes; horned viper; horned adder
snake gourd (Trichosanthes cucumerina)
Examples (17 in total)
I was bitten by a snake.
The snake shed its skin.
He is afraid of snakes.