target

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

告 sound component

  Sound component

gào

  

tell

Evolution

鵠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鵠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

target; swan

() 

center or bull's eye of an archery target (old); goal

Most common words with 鵠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

goal

鸿鹄

swan

燕雀安知鸿鹄之志

lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)

鹄的

bull's-eye

白鹄

(white) swan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4238th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9D60

Shuowen

“鵠,鴻鵠也。从鳥,告聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License