| 鸩 | |||
| a bird resembling the secretary falcon | |||
| Radical | 鳥鸟 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 4 | Total Strokes | 9 |
| Mandarin reading | zhèn | Cantonese reading | zam6 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 鴆 | a bird resembling the secretary falcon | |
| 鸩 | [ zhèn ] legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison, poisonous, to poison sb |
| 鸩羽 | [ zhèn yǔ ] the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩 |
| ⇒ 饮鸩止渴 | [ 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 |