生殺し

なまごろし

half-dead

生殺

せいさつ

sparing life and taking life, letting live and killing

殺生

せっしょう

killing, destruction of life

蛇の道は蛇

じゃのみちはへび

Set a thief to catch a thief

不殺生

ふせっしょう

ahimsa; abstinence from taking life; principle of non-violence in Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.

殺生丸

せっしょうまる

Sesshomaru (character in the anime Inuyasha)

蛇の目

じゃのめ

bull's-eye (pattern), double ring (pattern)

蛇の鬚

じゃのひげ ジャノヒゲ

dwarf mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus)

一殺多生

いっさつたしょう いっせつたしょう

It is justifiable to kill one (harmful) person to save the lives of many

殺生禁断

せっしょうきんだん

prohibition against hunting and fishing

生殺与奪

せいさつよだつ

(having) life-and-death power (over)

蛇

へび じゃ くちなわ へみ

snake

殺し

ころし

murder, killing, murderer

蛇の目の砂

じゃのめのすな

sand circle around the ring

蛇の目蝶

じゃのめちょう

satyrid (any butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae, esp. the dryad, Minois dryas), grayling

蛇の目傘

じゃのめがさ

paper umbrella (with a bull's-eye design)

蛇のよう

へびのよう

snakelike, snaky, serpentine

長蛇の列

ちょうだのれつ

long line, long queue

裸蛇

はだかへび

caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)