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Keyword
poisonous
  • a bird resembling the secretary falcon
Frequency
#5051
Strokes
9
Readings
zhèn
Mnemonic
鸟 (bird) gives the meaning and 冘 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
鸩zhèn
legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison; poisonous; to poison sb
饮鸩止渴yǐnzhènzhǐkě
lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom); fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse