Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1721 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: snake, serpent, hard drinker

Kunyomi: へび

Onyomi: ジャ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: insect

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ヘビ snake, serpent, large snake

ジャグチ faucet, tap

オウジャ boa

チョウダ long snake, long line (of people, etc.)

ダコウ meandering, snaking, zigzagging

ダカツ serpent (snake) and scorpion, detestation

イイ winding, meandering

ユウダ water snake

イイ winding, meandering

Kunyomi Examples

へび snake, serpent, large snake

穴に入る へびあなにいる snake hibernation

はだかへび caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)

にしきへび python, rock snake