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Kanji Detail for 巳 - "snake, sixth zodiac sign"
巳
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Meaning
巳 means "snake, sixth zodiac sign." Also associated with direction.
Snake - The zodiac animal.
Sixth zodiac sign - The sixth position in the twelve-sign cycle.
Direction - South-southeast.
Time - Around 10 AM, plus or minus one hour.
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Tattoo check: 巳
- Verified meaning: snake, sixth zodiac sign
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read み)
- Also carries these associations: direction
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 巳
Given names 巳(み)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sign of the snake or serpent; 9-11AM; sixth sign of Chinese zodiac
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
sixth earthly branch
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake; ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
the hours from 9 to 11; 6th terrestrial branch
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The sixth of the twelve earthly branches. From 9 AM to 11 AM is the 巳 hour. Also, 上巳 is a festival. The first 巳 day of the third month was 上巳. In Zheng customs, on this day purification rituals were performed at the Zhen and Wei rivers. See (Han Poetry Commentary). Later it became an occasion for recreation, the so-called spring lustration. After Wei, it was held only on the third day of the third month, no longer on a 巳 day.
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 巳
克巳は自分の思い通りにするのが許されないと、すぐ腹をたてる。
If Katsumi is not allowed to have his own way, he easily gets angry.
「トムとジョンって一卵性双生児とは聞いてたけど、本当によく似てるよね？」「似てる似てる。親にも時々間違えられるって言ってたよ。あの二人はほんと、已己巳己だよ」
"I heard that Tom and John are identical twins. They really do look alike, don't they?" "Yes, they really do look very similar. Even their parents say they get confused sometimes. Those two really are very similar, aren't they?"