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鵠

简鹄 · 繁鵠

Mandarin · pinyin gǔ#

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

Mandarin · pinyin hú#

swan

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鹄: gǔ · target

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3 · gu3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

guk1 · huk6

Cantonese word readings for 鵠. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character

(literary) swan
(literary) white
a surname

character

bullseye (centre of a target)

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