| 鵠的 | gǔ dì | bull's-eye; target; objective |
| 鵠候回音 | hú hòu huí yīn | to respectfully await sb's reply (idiom) |
| 1 | The veteran in velvet found that the diameter of the thermometer was one metre. | |
| 2 | black swan is the event that is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. | |
| 3 | The wandering band abandoned her bandaged husband on Swan Island. | |
| 4 | Do you know the black oropendola, or the goldfinch, Tengmalm's owl that lives in a forest of spruces? | |
| 5 | In the early ancient time, "crane" and "swan" share similar pronunciations. "Yellow crane" is generalized from "yellow swan". |