鴆

Information about character(s)

Radical: 鳥
Radical Strokes: 11
Additional Strokes: 4
Total Strokes: 15
Simplified Form: 鸩
Variants: 酖

Pronunciation

Pinyin: zhèn
Cantonese: zam6
JapaneseOn: CHIN
Korean: CIM

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: a bird resembling the secretary falcon

CE-Dict: legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison/poisonous/to poison sb

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.[Formal] (to kill) with poisoned drink
2.a legendary bird with poisonous feathers

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《鳥部》鴆毒鳥也。从鳥冘聲。一名運日。

康熙字典文字版 【亥集中】【鳥字部】鴆
【唐韻】【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】𠀤直禁切，音沈。【說文】毒鳥也。【玉篇】毒鳥食蛇，其羽畫酒，飮之卽死。【廣雅】鴆鳥。其雄謂之運日，其雌謂之隂諧。【廣志】鴆形似鷹，大如鶚，毛黑，喙長，食蛇及橡實。【晉語】置鴆於酒。【屈原·離騷】吾令鴆爲媒兮，鴆告予以不好。又鴆有同名殊類者。【山海經】瑤碧之山有鳥，狀如雉，恆食蜚，名曰鴆。又通作酖。【左傳·閔元年】宴安酖毒，不可懷也。【註】酖與鴆通。又【集韻】徒南切，音覃。義同。又丁紺切，音馾。鳥名。或作𪀩𩾺。

CF-Dict: venin

Han-De-Dict: giftig, gifthaltig (u.E.)/vergiften (u.E.)