鴻鵠

鸿鹄
hónghú
  1. swan
  2. person with noble aspirations

CEDICT

  1. (literary) big bird; swan
  2. (literary, figurative) person with lofty aspirations
  3. big bird; swan
  4. person with lofty aspirations

Wiktionary

  1. 大鳥。
  2. 比喻志向遠大的人。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 鴻 hóng
  1. eastern bean goose
  2. great
  3. large
2 鵠 hú swan

Containing this entry

燕雀安知鴻鵠志 yànquèānzhīhónghúzhì
鴻鵠之志 hónghúzhīzhì

Related entries

天鵝 tiāné swan
这只天鹅是黑色的。

This swan is black.

Source: Tatoeba

白鵠 báihú (white) swan
鵠 hú swan