鹄 - hú - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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18 strokes
Traditional (switch to Simplified)

鵠 (鹄)

hú

Definition

swan

Other pronunciations

gǔ

center or bull's eye of an archery target (old)
goal
target

Character Decomposition

Related words (3)

鵠候

hú hòu

to respectfully await; to look forward to

(white) swan

swan; person with noble aspirations

Idioms (2)

刻鵠類鶩

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

燕雀安知鴻鵠之志

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?

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