蛇皮

Chinese

		snake; serpent	leather; skin; fur
simp. and trad. (蛇皮)		蛇	皮
anagram		皮蛇

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shépí
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˊ ㄆㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shépí
  - Wade–Giles: shê²-pʻi²
  - Yale: shé-pí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sherpyi
  - Palladius: шэпи (šɛpi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ³⁵ pʰi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: se⁴ pei⁴
  - Yale: sèh pèih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: se⁴ pei⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sé⁴ péi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː²¹ pʰei̯²¹/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: sa⁴ pi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sa³⁵ pʰi²⁴/

蛇皮

Dialectal synonyms of 蛇蛻 (“snake slough”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蛇蛻
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	蛇蛻
Gan	Nanchang	蛇瞘
	Pengze	蛇蛻瞘
	Lichuan	蛇瞘
	Pingxiang	蛇皮
Huizhou	Jixi	蛇皮, 蛇殼
Jin	Xinzhou	蛇皮
Southern Min	Xiamen	蛇蛻
	Yongchun	蛇殼
	Leizhou	蛇殼
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	蛇蛻殼
Wu	Shanghai	蛇蛻, 龍衣
	Suzhou	蛇殼
	Hangzhou	蛇衣, 蛇殼兒

From Middle Chinese-derived elements 蛇 (ja, “snake”) +‎ 皮 (bi, “skin”).

The bi can also be read with the 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han-sound”) reading of hi.^[1]^[2]^[3]

蛇(じゃ)皮(び) or 蛇(じゃ)皮(ひ) • (jabi or jahi)

snakeskin [early 1500s]
(dermatology) peeling skin syndrome, as if moulted like snakeskin [mid-1680s]
short for 蛇皮線 (jabisen): a 三線 (sanshin, “Okinawan fretless lute”) usually made from snakeskin

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN