hónghú

swan / person with noble aspirations

kèhúlèiwù

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

yànquèānzhīhónghúzhīzhì

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?

yànquèyānzhīhónggǔzhīzhì

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?

báihú

(white) swan

gǔ

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

hú

swan

húhòu

to respectfully await / to look forward to

gǔdì

bull's-eye / target / objective