Chinese Character Wiki

鴆

zhèn

a bird resembling the secretary falcon

Components
冘 sound component

冘  Sound component

yín, yóu

  

to move on

鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鴆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鴆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鸩 (鴆) 

zhèn

a bird resembling the secretary falcon; legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison; poisonous; to poison sb

Most common words with 鴆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鸩

poisonous

饮鸩止渴

fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]r[ə]m-s

drimH

zhèn

poison (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5144th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

鸩

Unicode

U+9D06

Shuowen

“鴆，毒鳥也。从鳥，冘聲。一名運日。”


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