鹄

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

swan

to say / to tell / to announce / to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit / to sue

variant of 屌[diao3] / penis

bird / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2] / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn

swan / person with noble aspirations

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?

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?

(white) swan

to respectfully await / to look forward to

bull's-eye / target / objective

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