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

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 (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