1 variant: 蛇 shé

1 ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺[chǐ] in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body,

1 local bully

2 tyrant

3 regional mafia boss

1 lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom)

2 fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy

3 to punish sb as a warning to others

1 evil monsters

2 (fig.) bad characters

3 (political) bad elements

1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy

1 once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope

2 once bitten, twice shy (idiom)

1 a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)

1 words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced

2 malicious and duplicitous

1 lit. to pull a snake from its hole

2 to expose a malefactor (idiom)