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鹄

gǔ

Character Traditional 鵠

What 鹄 means

1. center or bull's eye of an archery target (old)
2. goal
3. target

Other readings

鹄 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• húswan

Words starting with 鹄

• 鹄候hú hòuto respectfully await; to look forward to
• 鹄的gǔ dìbull's-eye; target; objective

Words containing 鹄

• 白鹄bái hú(white) swan
• 鸿鹄hóng húswan; person with noble aspirations
• 刻鹄类鹜kè hú lèi wùto aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)…
• 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志yàn què ān zhī hóng hú zhī zhìlit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)…
• 燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志yàn què yān zhī hóng gǔ zhī zhìlit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)…

Characters built on 告

These share the phonetic component 告 (gào), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 酷kùruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool
• 梏gùbraces (med.); fetters; manacles
• 喾Kùone of the five legendary emperors, also called 高辛氏

Sounds the same

Read gǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 股thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share
• 古ancient; old; paleo-
• 鼓drum; to drum; to strike
• 骨bone
• 谷grain; corn
• 贾merchant; to buy
• 汩confused; extinguished; (onomatopoeia) used in 汩汩
• 蛊arch. legendary venomous insect; to poison; to bewitch
• 牯bullock; cow
• 钴(chemistry) cobalt (Taiwan pr. gū); used in 钴𬭁gǔ mǔ
• 鹘used in 鹘鸼
• 瞽blind; undiscerning