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		Trad	Simp	Mandarin	Definition	Days old	Ver
		飲鴆止渴	饮鸩止渴	[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/	3568	1
		鴆	鸩	[zhen4]	/legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison/poisonous/to poison sb/	7007	1
		鴆羽	鸩羽	[zhen4 yu3]	/the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆\|鸩/	6954	1

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