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鸩

zhèn

Character Traditional 鴆

What 鸩 means

1. legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison
2. poisonous
3. to poison sb

Words starting with 鸩

• 鸩羽zhèn yǔthe poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鸩

Words containing 鸩

• 饮鸩止渴yǐn zhèn zhǐ kělit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom)…

Characters built on 冘

These share the phonetic component 冘 (yín), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 沈shěn(literary) juice
• 枕zhěn(bound form) pillow; to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. zhèn)
• 忱chénsincerity; honesty

Sounds the same

Read zhèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 阵disposition of troops; wave; spate
• 振to shake; to flap; to vibrate
• 震to shake; to vibrate; to jolt
• 镇to press down; to calm; to subdue
• 朕(used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we"); (literary) omen
• 圳(dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. zùn); used in place names, notably 深圳
• 赈to provide relief; to aid
• 眹pupil
• 揕to hit; to thrust
• 酖poisonous; to poison
• 瑱jade weight
• 鎭old variant of 镇