鹄 hú gǔ

target

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DEFINITIONS

鹄 hú
  • swan
鹄 gǔ
  • center or bull's eye of an archery target (old)
  • goal
  • target

STROKES

WORDS

鸿鹄 hóng hú swan; person with noble aspirations
刻鹄类鹜 kè hú lèi wù to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom); to fail utterly in trying to copy something; to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
燕雀安知鸿鹄之志 yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhì lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志 yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhì lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
白鹄 bái hú (white) swan
鹄候 hú hòu to respectfully await; to look forward to
鹄的 gǔ dì bull's-eye; target; objective
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