| 鹄 | [ gǔ ] center or bull's eye of an archery target (old), goal, target |
| 鹄 | [ hú ] swan |
| 鹄候 | [ hú hoù ] to respectfully await, to look forward to |
| 鹄的 | [ gǔ dì ] bull's-eye, target, objective |
| ⇒ 刻鹄类鹜 | [ kè hú leì 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? |
| ⇒ 白鹄 | [ baí hú ] (white) swan |
| ⇒ 鸿鹄 | [ hóng hú ] swan, person with noble aspirations |