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ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	PlainPY	English Definition
ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	PlainPY	English Definition
1	饮鸩止渴	飲鴆止渴	yǐn zhèn zhǐ kě	yin3 zhen4 zhi3 ke3	lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom); fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse
2	鸩	鴆	zhèn	zhen4	legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison; poisonous; to poison sb
3	鸩羽	鴆羽	zhèn yǔ	zhen4 yu3	the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鸩