Kanji Detail for 鵠 - "swan, white, target"

鵠

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

鵠 means "swan, white, target."
1. Swan - A large white bird of the family Anatidae.
2. White - The color white.
3. Target - A mark for archery; the center of a target.
4. Correct - Right; proper.
5. Great - Large; vast.
Four-character idioms with 鵠
- 燕雀鴻鵠えんじゃくこうこく how can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); only a hero can understand a hero
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

swan

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

target

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

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

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

swan

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A bird name. Like a goose but larger. Entire body is white. Hence sometimes called a white bird. Long neck. Has a knob at the base of the beak. Yellow-red color. Flies very high. | The target point of an archery target. Like the bullseye of today's arrow targets. In ancient times, called either 正 or 鵠. Hence the standard of affairs is also called 正鵠.
Onyomi

koh(コウ)

koku(コク)
Kunyomi

kugui(くぐい)

mato(まと)
Strokes

18 strokes
Radical

鳥 (tori・torihen)
Related Keywords

swan white target correct great