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Trad. 鵠

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

🖌️ 鹄 Strokes

Trad. 鵠

swan

🖌️ 鹄 Strokes

鸿hóng 鹄hú

Trad. 鴻鵠

swan
person with noble aspirations

🖌️ 鸿 Strokes 🖌️ 鹄 Strokes

Trad. 鵠候

to respectfully await
to look forward to

🖌️ 鹄 Strokes 🖌️ 候 Strokes

Trad. 鵠的

bull's-eye
target
objective

🖌️ 鹄 Strokes 🖌️ 的 Strokes

Trad. 白鵠

(white) swan

🖌️ 白 Strokes 🖌️ 鹄 Strokes

刻kè 鹄hú 类lèi 鹜wù

Trad. 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

🖌️ 刻 Strokes 🖌️ 鹄 Strokes 🖌️ 类 Strokes 🖌️ 鹜 Strokes

燕yàn 雀què 安ān 知zhī 鸿hóng 鹄hú 之zhī 志zhì

Trad. 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?

🖌️ 燕 Strokes 🖌️ 雀 Strokes 🖌️ 安 Strokes 🖌️ 知 Strokes 🖌️ 鸿 Strokes 🖌️ 鹄 Strokes 🖌️ 之 Strokes 🖌️ 志 Strokes

燕yàn 雀què 焉yān 知zhī 鸿hóng 鹄gǔ 之zhī 志zhì

Trad. 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?

🖌️ 燕 Strokes 🖌️ 雀 Strokes 🖌️ 焉 Strokes 🖌️ 知 Strokes 🖌️ 鸿 Strokes 🖌️ 鹄 Strokes 🖌️ 之 Strokes 🖌️ 志 Strokes