Zi:蛇
蛇 [shé] snake [yí] 虚与委蛇 [tuó] 尺蠖 [chí] (地名)
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹shé 蛇 {B} n. snake; serpent
►²⁰yí 蛇 char. ►³yíyí 蛇蛇 ►⁴wēiyí 委蛇
From 虫 (chóng) ‘worm’ and 它 tā ‘it’.
它 depicted a cobra or python. The ancient sounds of 蛇 and 它 (now shé and tā) were similar. Apparently when 它 was borrowed to represent the word tā ‘other; he, she, it’, 虫 was added to 它, forming 蛇, to represent the original meaning ‘snake’.
►references: Guǎngyùn:041.42,160.47,165.34; Wieger:108a; Karlgren:AD1011,GSR4l; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:4.2845.8; Mathews:5698; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1080.20; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:191.1.08
►components: 虫它
►Cantonese: seh\ yih\
<cdl char='蛇' uni='86C7'>
<comp char='虫' uni='866B' points='0,2 49,124' />
<comp char='它' uni='5B83' points='55,0 128,128' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='虫' uni='866B' points='4,0 124,128'>
<comp char='口' uni='53E3' points='10,34 118,76' />
<comp char='厶' uni='53B6' variant='5' points='0,0 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='口' uni='53E3' points='24,24 104,104'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='0,0 128,128' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='4,4 124,128'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hz' points='0,0 128,0 128,128' head='cut' tail='long' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF7E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='厶' uni='53B6' variant='5' points='4,0 124,128' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='s' points='64,0 64,118' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='t' points='0,128 120,110' />
<stroke type='d' points='110,94 128,128' />
<!-- variant based on [U+E74F](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='它' uni='5B83' points='0,0 128,124'>
<comp char='宀' uni='5B80' points='0,0 128,50' />
<comp char='匕' uni='5315' points='40,48 120,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='宀' uni='5B80' points='0,16 128,64'>
<stroke type='d' points='56,0 68,54' />
<comp char='冖' uni='5196' points='0,54 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='冖' uni='5196' points='0,16 128,56'>
<stroke type='d' points='14,0 0,128' />
<stroke type='hg' points='13,24 128,24 114,124' head='cut' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='匕' uni='5315' points='16,0 112,124' radical='K4 D1'>
<stroke type='p' points='101,20 0,52' />
<stroke type='swg' points='0,0 0,96 36,128 128,128 128,86' />
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+86C7
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