鸿鹄(hóng hú): swan
swan
Character breakdown
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Word information
- Pinyin
- hóng hú
- Meaning
- swan
- HSK level
- —
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- 鴻鵠
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 鸿鹄 — tap one to open its word page.
lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims
Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European-trained painter and influential art teacher
Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)
light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling
a goose's footprint in the snow
swan goose
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