鹄
gǔ
Pinyin

Definition

鹄
 - 
gǔ
  1. center or bull's eye of an archery target (old)
  2. goal
  3. target
鹄
 - 
hú
  1. swan

Character Decomposition

Related Words (1)

鸿鹄
hóng hú
  1. 1 swan
  2. 2 person with noble aspirations

Idioms (3)

刻鹄类鹜
kè hú lèi wù
  1. 1 to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail utterly in trying to copy something
  3. 3 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
  1. 1 lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)
  2. 2 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
  1. 1 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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