Kanji
N1 11 strokes Grade 8 freq #1721

snake, serpent, hard drinker

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

insect mushi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

faucet; tap
meandering; snaking
big snake; (large) serpent
snakeheads; Chinese criminal gangs, esp. for smuggling Chinese immigrants
snake skin
krait (esp. the Taiwanese banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus)
erratic driving; driving in a zigzag
water snake
lacertid (any lizard of family Lacertidae, esp. the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides)
boa (snake)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

bull's-eye (pattern); double ring (pattern)
snake
long line; long queue
milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience
snake hibernation
secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius); secretary bird
state of uncertainty; limbo
snake shōchū
Enneapterygius etheostomus (species of threefin blenny)

Example sentences

He is afraid of snakes.

He is afraid of snakes.

We couldn't use the faucet because it was out of order.

Water spouted from the broken faucet.