Usage of the character 鹄
hú
鹄
[鵠]
- swan
gǔ
鹄
[鵠]
- center or bull's eye of an archery target (old)
- goal
- target
hónghú
鸿鹄
[鴻鵠]
- swan
- person with noble aspirations
báihú
白鹄
[白鵠]
- (white) swan
húhòu
鹄候
[鵠候]
- to respectfully await
- to look forward to
gǔdì
鹄的
[鵠的]
- bull's-eye
- target
- objective
kèhúlèiwù
刻鹄类鹜
[刻鵠類鶩]
- 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
yànquè'ānzhīhónghúzhīzhì
燕雀安知鸿鹄之志
[燕雀安知鴻鵠之志]
- 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?
yànquèyānzhīhónggǔzhīzhì
燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志
[燕雀焉知鴻鵠之志]
- 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?