へび
Meanings
Noun
1. snake
じゃ is more associated with serpent and large snakes
2. serpent; large snake
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (38 in total)
unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest
sea snake; worm eel (Ophichthidae spp.); snake eel
Serpens (constellation); the Snake
false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha); mock strawberry
snakelike; snaky; serpentine
snake charmer
Japanese four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese striped snake
poisonous snake; poisonous serpent
blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake; fools rush in
blacksnake
albino Japanese rat snake
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
to stir up trouble for oneself; (lit.) to scare out a snake by poking at the brush
python; rock snake
false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha); mock strawberry
state of uncertainty; limbo; leaving unfinished with the intention of inflicting suffering; dragging out tortuously; (lit.) half-killing a snake
rattlesnake
Serpens (constellation); the Snake
snake venom; snake toxin
lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)
viper (esp. a pitless viper)
snakeskin pattern
black Japanese striped snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata); Japanese black ratsnake
dobsonfly (esp. species Protohermes grandis)
coral snake
sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes)
spectacled cobra; Indian cobra; Asian cobra (Naja naja)
caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)
king snake (any snake of genus Lampropeltis)
milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
krait (esp. the Taiwanese banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus)
Enneapterygius etheostomus (species of threefin blenny)
snake hibernation
cerastes; horned viper; horned adder
Japanese odd-scaled snake (Achalinus spinalis); Peters' odd-scaled snake; grey burrowing snake
snake gourd (Trichosanthes cucumerina)
Examples (17 in total)
I was bitten by a snake.
The snake shed its skin.
He is afraid of snakes.