9 results for *鹄*
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鹄hú
swan
白鹄bái hú
(white) swan
鸿鹄hóng hú
swan; person with noble aspirations
鹄候hú hòu
to respectfully await; to look forward to
鹄的gǔ dì
bull's-eye; target; objective
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?