八岐大蛇
Traditional form:
八岐大蛇
Pinyin (reading):
Bāqí Dàshé
Definitions:
- Yamata no Orochi, serpent with eight heads and eight tails from mythological section of Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan)
Characters:
- 八 - eight; all around, all sides
- 岐 - to diverge, to branch; the name of a mountain
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 蛇 - snake
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