What's the difference between Phoenix and Suzaku?

Many people think that Suzaku is equivalent to Phoenix, but it is not exactly the same.

Suzaku is a sacred animal representing the South. Strictly speaking, Suzaku is limited to "Southern Fire Phoenix" and is a subspecies of Phoenix.

In modern times, influenced by the myth of the rebirth of the western phoenix and Japanese popular culture, Chinese people sometimes regard fairy birds as rosefinch or phoenix in translation and cognition.