Chinese symbol for “serpentine”
蛇纹石
shé wén shí
Traditional: 蛇紋石
serpentine (geology)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for serpentine is 蛇纹石 (shé wén shí), defined as: serpentine (geology).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “serpentine”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蛇纹石.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 毒蛇 | dú shé | viper |
| 蟒蛇 | mǎng shé | python; boa |
| 眼镜蛇 (眼鏡蛇) | yǎn jìng shé | cobra |
| 响尾蛇 (響尾蛇) | xiǎng wěi shé | rattlesnake |
| 牛鬼蛇神 | niú guǐ shé shén | evil monsters; (fig.) bad characters |
| 蛇头 (蛇頭) | shé tóu | head of a snake; human smuggler |
| 指纹 (指紋) | zhǐ wén | fingerprint; the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers |
| 纹身 (紋身) | wén shēn | variant of 文身 (wén shēn) |
| 石油 | shí yóu | oil; petroleum |
See also: Japanese symbol for “serpentine”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.