zhèndān

wine with bird poison added

zhèn
variant
poisonous wine
(bound form) wine made toxic by soaking the feathers of the mythical poisonous bird; more generally, any poisoned wine
dān
addicted to liquor
to love drinking; to be addicted to or indulge in alcohol; also extended to mean being obsessed with something
zhèn
to poison
to poison someone; poisonous; specifically refers to the venom from a mythical bird, often used to spike wine
mythical poisonous bird
a legendary bird with venomous feathers that can be used to poison wine
dān
to indulge in wine
(literary) to have a strong liking for or to be addicted to drinking wine

Frequency

Character
Written text
7,176th most common 0.047 per million
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.04 per million

Details

Strokes
11
Unicode
U+9156

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