蛇

Derived characters

 * 㵃, 𨫯, 𬠶, 𰣿

Glyph origin
. was also the original pictographic form of this character.

Etymology 1
. Various theories have been proposed:


 * sets up, comparing this with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. He also compares it to 🇨🇬. considers these 🇨🇬 forms to be unrelated.
 * relates it to, but this comparison is no longer held in STEDT.
 * relates it to 🇨🇬, which STEDT derives from 🇨🇬, as well as 🇨🇬. Comparison with the 🇨🇬 form has been challenged by.
 * notes similarity to 🇨🇬 (from Pre-Hlai *Cilaːɦ) as well as to 🇨🇬 words, such as 🇨🇬, but considers the 🇨🇬 forms to be possible borrowings from Chinese. (He does not seem to address the 🇨🇬 forms directly.) In his view, a more likely relationship is with the in 🇨🇬. In Old Chinese, this also provides the second syllable in .  is then a euphemism for common Sino-Tibetan  for taboo reasons.
 * relates it to 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) snake; serpent
 * 2) illegal immigrant
 * 3)  to shirk one's duty; to be lazy on the job
 * 4)  straight
 * 5)  herpes zoster; shingles
 * 1)  to shirk one's duty; to be lazy on the job
 * 2)  straight
 * 3)  herpes zoster; shingles
 * 1)  herpes zoster; shingles

Synonyms




Etymology 2
From.

Definitions

 * 1)  sir

Etymology 1
→ →  →

Shift from older hemi (see below). The medial lost its nasal quality to become a plosive.

Appears in texts from the 1300s.

Noun

 * 1) a snake, serpent
 * 2) a snake
 * 1) a snake
 * 1) a snake
 * 1) a snake
 * 1) a snake
 * 1) a snake
 * 1) a snake

Etymology 2
→ * → →  →

From.

Derivation theories include:
 * Possibly cognate with 🇨🇬.
 * Possibly related to, or influenced by, 🇨🇬-derived verb.
 * Possibly also related to.

Noun

 * 1)  a snake, serpent

Etymology 3
Extension of,   as such a rope resembles the appearance of a snake.

itself is from

Noun

 * 1)  a snake, serpent

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1) a snake, serpent
 * 2)  a heavy drinker

Affix

 * 1) snake, serpent
 * 2) snakelike, snaky

Etymology 5
Confusion of pronunciation with via phonetic radical 它.

Affix

 * 1) snake, serpent

Etymology 6
From.

Affix

 * 1) winding, meandering

Etymology 1
From.

Hanja
or


 * 1) snake; long snake

Etymology 2
From.

Hanja

 * 1) winding, meandering

Etymology 1
From.

Pronunciation

 * じゃ ( - [0])

Noun

 * 1) a snake, serpent

Etymology 2
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * ふぃ ( - [0])

Noun

 * 1)  a snake, serpent

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a snake, serpent

Etymology
Derivation theories include:
 * Possibly cognate with modern 🇨🇬.
 * Possibly related to or influenced by the verb.

Noun

 * 1) a snake, serpent