Key facts
- Chinese
- 蛇
- Hanyu pinyin
- shé
- Wade giles
- shê
- Ipa
- [ʂɤ ̌ ]
- Romanization
- sà
- Yale romanization
- sèh
- Jyutping
- se4
- Hokkien poj
- siâ / chôa
- Fuzhou buc
- siè
- Jian ou romanized
- ṳê
- Baxter 1992
- * ljAj
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * Cə.lAj
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Zodiac snake, showing the shé (蛇) character for snake The Snake (蛇) is the sixth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Snake is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 巳. Besides its use in the cycle of years, the zodiacal snake is otherwise used to also represent hours of the day. Snakes have a long and complicated place in Chinese mythology and culture.
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