IDENTITY
蛇shésnake
HSK 5Top 1800
CORE MEANING
snake
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.snakeHSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 虫insect radical (chóng)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰虫它
- insect/reptile radical
- gives the sound shé (historical)
USAGE
Common words
毒蛇dúshépoisonous snake
蛇皮shépísnakeskin
Graded examples
蛇没有脚。Shé méiyǒu jiǎo.HSK4
Snakes have no feet.
RELATIONS
LEARNING
Memory aid
A reptile (虫) that slithers like "it" (它) — a snake.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1800
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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