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鴆
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鸩
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a bird resembling

HSK 10
Nature →Animals →Birds
zhèn
チン
짐
Components
冘 to move on+ 鳥 bird =
鴆 a bird resembling
冘 Phonetic component
yín to move on
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鳥 Meaning component
bird
bird
Notes
Similar Characters
忱 truth枕 pillow沈 Shen沉 profound眈 gloat耽 indulge in鸩 Bird A Bird Resembling (simp)酖 wine with bird梟 owl (trad)鳧 duck (trad)鳩 dove (trad)鳳 male phoenix (trad)鳴 twitter (trad/jp)鳶 milvus (trad)鴂 the tailor-bird鴇 bustard (trad)鴈 wild-goose (archaic)鴉 raven (trad)鴒 species (trad)鴔 bird (trad)
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
鸩
Regular
Modern
Chinese
鸩 / 鴆 [zhèn]
legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison; poisonous; to poison sb
Japanese
鴆 、 酖 ちん 同音
noun poisonfeather bird; zhenniao; zhen; (explanation) mythical poisonous bird (of ancient China)
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (2)
饮鸩止渴 [yǐn​zhèn​zhǐ​kě] #46,689
lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom)
鸩羽 [zhèn​yǔ]
the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩
JAPANESE WORDS (1)
鴆 [ちん] #149,643
poisonfeather bird