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		Trad	Simp	Mandarin	Definition	Days old	Ver
		白鵠	白鹄	[bai2 hu2]	/(white) swan/	6106	1
		鵠	鹄	[gu3]	/center or bull's eye of an archery target (old)/goal/target/	6056	1
		鵠的	鹄的	[gu3 di4]	/bull's-eye/target/objective/	6105	1
		鴻鵠	鸿鹄	[hong2 hu2]	/swan/person with noble aspirations/	6106	1
		鵠	鹄	[hu2]	/swan/	6106	1
		鵠候	鹄候	[hu2 hou4]	/to respectfully await/to look forward to/	4842	1
		刻鵠類鶩	刻鹄类鹜	[ke4 hu2 lei4 wu4]	/to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)/to fail utterly in trying to copy something/to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result/	5351	1
		燕雀安知鴻鵠之志	燕雀安知鸿鹄之志	[yan4 que4 an1 zhi1 hong2 hu2 zhi1 zhi4]	/lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom)/fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?/	6106	1
		燕雀焉知鴻鵠之志	燕雀焉知鸿鹄之志	[yan4 que4 yan1 zhi1 hong2 gu3 zhi1 zhi4]	/lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?/	5797	1

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