じゃ
Meanings
Noun
1. snake
じゃ is more associated with serpent and large snakes
2. serpent; large snake
Kanji used
snake
Pitch accent
じゃ
Used in vocabulary (20 in total)
big snake; serpent
poisonous snake; poisonous serpent
albino Japanese rat snake
meandering; snaking; zigzagging
bull's-eye (pattern); double ring (pattern); umbrella with bull's-eye pattern
the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one
long snake; long line (of people, etc.)
body of a snake; serpentine
snakeheads; Chinese criminal gangs, esp. for smuggling Chinese immigrants
gabion; cage filled with stones
snake venom; snake toxin
sacred snake
gabion; cage filled with stones
dragon dance (e.g. in the Nagasaki Kunchi festival)
Cnidium monnieri fruit
dwarf mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus)
Examples (17 in total)
I was bitten by a snake.
The snake shed its skin.
He is afraid of snakes.