蛇皮

Chinese

		snake; serpent	leather; skin; fur
simp. and trad. (蛇皮)		蛇	皮
anagram		皮蛇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shépí

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜˊ ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se⁴ pei⁴
• Gan (Wiktionary): sa⁴ pi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shépí
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˊ ㄆㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shépí
    • Wade–Giles: shê²-pʻi²
    • Yale: shé-pí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sherpyi
    • Palladius: шэпи (šɛpi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ³⁵ pʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: se⁴ pei⁴
    • Yale: sèh pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se⁴ pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sé⁴ péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː²¹ pʰei̯²¹/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: sa⁴ pi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sa³⁵ pʰi²⁴/

Noun

蛇皮

1. snakeskin

Synonyms

• (Huizhou) 蛇殼／蛇壳
• (Wu) 蛇衣, 蛇殼兒／蛇壳儿, 蛇吞殼／蛇吞壳

Japanese

Kanji in this term
蛇	皮
じゃ Grade: S	び Grade: 3
goon

Kanji in this term
蛇	皮
じゃ Grade: S	ひ Grade: 3
goon	kan’on

Etymology

From Middle Chinese-derived elements 蛇 (ja, “snake”) +‎ 皮 (bi, “skin”).

The bi can also be read with the 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han-sound”) reading of hi.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) じゃ​び [jáꜜbì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑa̠bʲi]

Noun

蛇(じゃ)皮(び) or 蛇(じゃ)皮(ひ) • (jabi or jahi) 

1. snakeskin [early 1500s]
2. (dermatology) peeling skin syndrome, as if moulted like snakeskin [mid-1680s]
3. Short for 蛇皮線 (jabisen): a 三線 (sanshin, “Okinawan fretless lute”) usually made from snakeskin

Derived terms

• 蛇皮線(じゃびせん) (jabisen)