hóng hú

Traditional: 鴻鵠

鸿鹄 (hóng hú) is a Chinese word meaning “swan; person with noble aspirations”.

Meanings

  1. 1swan
  2. 2person with noble aspirations

Characters in 鸿鹄

鸿hóng · eastern bean goose鹄gǔ · center or bull's eye of an archery target (old)

Related words

鸿沟(fig.) gulf; chasm; wide gap鸿eastern bean goose鸿运variant of 紅運|红运[hong2 yun4]黄飞鸿Wong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master鸿门宴Hongmen feast哀鸿遍野lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims大鸿胪minister responsible for foreign relations and court protocol in imperial China惊鸿graceful (esp. of female posture)来鸿incoming letter (literary)来鸿去燕lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move燕雀安知鸿鹄之志lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志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?

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