Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhèn
English
- a bird resembling the secretary falcon
- legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison
- poisonous
- to poison sb
- a legendary bird with poisonous feathers. ----
- poisoned wine.
粵語
- 鳥名。傳説中鴆鳥羽毛(又有人話係糞便)有劇毒,用嚟浸酒可以毒死人。
- 毒酒。
Variants
Words containing 鴆
- 自鴆zi6 zam6
to suicide by self-poisoning
- 鴆酒zam6 zau2
poisoned wine
- 鴆毒zam6 duk6
poisoned wine
- 飲鴆止渴jam2 zam6 zi2 hot3
lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom)
- 鴆羽zam6 jyu5
the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩
- 止渴飲鴆zi2 hot3 jam2 zam6
to do something harmful in order to seek any relief; literally: to drink poisonous liquor quench thirst