Definitions

flying high; ambition

Etymology

Depicts a bird () with a line on its neck to either indicate a crane's long neck or loudness of its call. Based on the original meaning "crane", now written as . The meaning later shifted to "very high".

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Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
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