鸩 — Chinese character
鸩
zhèn
a bird resembling the secretary falcon
- Pinyin
- zhèn
- Radical
- 196 ⿃ (Bird)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 冘 鸟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 鸟; sound component 冘
- Traditional
- 鴆
Common words with 鸩
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饮鸩止渴 (飲鴆止渴) | yǐn zhèn zhǐ kě | lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom); fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse |
| 鸩羽 (鴆羽) | zhèn yǔ | the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩 |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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