鹄 — Chinese character
鹄
gǔ
swan
- Pinyin
- gǔ
- Radical
- 196 ⿃ (Bird)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 告 鸟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 鸟; sound component 告
- Traditional
- 鵠
Common words with 鹄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸿鹄 (鴻鵠) | hóng hú | swan; person with noble aspirations |
| 刻鹄类鹜 (刻鵠類鶩) | kè hú lèi wù | to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom); to fail utterly in trying to copy something |
| 白鹄 (白鵠) | bái hú | (white) swan |
| 鹄候 (鵠候) | hú hòu | to respectfully await; to look forward to |
| 鹄的 (鵠的) | gǔ dì | bull's-eye; target |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.