鸿鹄
hóng hú
Pinyin

Definition

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

Character Decomposition

Related Words (17)

鸿运
hóng yùn
  1. 1 variant of 紅運|红运[hóng yùn]
李鸿章
Lǐ Hóng zhāng
  1. 1 Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
惊鸿
jīng hóng
  1. 1 graceful (esp. of female posture)
  2. 2 lithe
鸿图
hóng tú
  1. 1 variant of 宏圖|宏图[hóng tú]
鸿沟
hóng gōu
  1. 1 (fig.) gulf
  2. 2 chasm
  3. 3 wide gap
  4. 4 (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu 楚 and Han 漢|汉
鸿福
hóng fú
  1. 1 variant of 洪福[hóng fú]
鸿门宴
Hóng mén Yàn
  1. 1 Feast at Hongmen
  2. 2 (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest
  3. 3 refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ]
鸿雁
hóng yàn
  1. 1 (bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides)
黄飞鸿
Huáng Fēi hóng
  1. 1 Wong Fei Hung (1847-1924), famous martial artist and revolutionary
哀鸿遍野
āi hóng biàn yě
  1. 1 lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims
  2. 2 starving people fill the land
崔鸿
Cuī Hóng
  1. 1 Cui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
徐悲鸿
Xú Bēi hóng
  1. 1 Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European trained painter and influential art teacher
波鸿
Bō hóng
  1. 1 Bochum (city in Germany)
辜鸿铭
Gū Hóng míng
  1. 1 Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views
鸿
hóng
  1. 1 eastern bean goose
  2. 2 great
  3. 3 large
鸿海
Hóng hǎi
  1. 1 Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn
鸿鹄
hóng hú
  1. 1 swan
  2. 2 person with noble aspirations

Idioms (9)

来鸿去燕
lái hóng qù yàn
  1. 1 lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
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
哀鸿遍野
āi hóng biàn yě
  1. 1 lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims
  2. 2 starving people fill the land
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?
轻于鸿毛
qīng yú hóng máo
  1. 1 light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling
  2. 2 unimportant
雪泥鸿爪
xuě ní hóng zhǎo
  1. 1 a goose's footprint in the snow
  2. 2 vestiges of the past (idiom)
  3. 3 the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)
鸿毛泰山
hóng máo Tài Shān
  1. 1 lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
鸿毛泰岱
hóng máo tài dài
  1. 1 light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another

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