Chinese Character Wiki

鸩

zhèn

a bird resembling the secretary falcon

Components
冘 sound component

冘  Sound component

yín, yóu

  

to move on

鸟 meaning component

鸟  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鸩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鸩 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鸩 Simplified script Modern

Simplified 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 鸩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鸩

poisonous

饮鸩止渴

fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5144th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

鴆

Unicode

U+9E29


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