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Hanzi Character Search: 鸩

9E29

 
a bird resembling the secretary falcon
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 4 Total Strokes 9
Mandarin reading zhèn Cantonese reading zam6
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) a bird resembling the secretary falcon

CEDICT Entries:

   [ zhèn ]    legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison, poisonous, to poison sb
   [ zhèn ]    the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩
⇒    [ yǐn zhèn zhǐ ]    lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom), fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse

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