鴻	998A55   63A.50-3	部居	畫數  17	ㄏㄨㄥˊ [hong2] .
N	(1)  The wild goose; wild swan: 輕如鴻毛 light as swan's down; 鴻飛 to go away for some great undertaking; 鴻爪 footprints of birds--traces of past events; as carrier of letters, see 鴻雁 [hong2yan4]↓; hence 鴻便 when convenient to send a letter; 哀鴻遍野 phr., starving people fill the land. (2)  A surname.
Adj	(LL) vast, grand (interch. 宏 62.93 弘 50A.93 sometimes also 洪 63A.80): 鴻猷，鴻圖 (LL) great plan or undertaking; 鴻恩 your great favor; 鴻文 (LL) your great piece of writing; 鴻儒 (LL) great scholar; 鴻福，鴻禧 great luck or blessing; 鴻基 (LL) great foundation for undertaking.
Words	1.鴻嗷 [hong2ao2], n., (AC, allu.) the cry of starving people.  2.鴻寶 [hong2bao3], n., secret collection of books, usu. Taoist.  3.鴻博 [hong2bo2], adj., learned, widely read.  4.鴻溝 [hong2gou1], n., a gap or gulf separating two parties or units; a boundary line.  5.鴻鵠 [hong2hu2], n., a large swan; (fig.) 鴻鵠之志 great ambitions.  6.鴻爪 [hong2zhao3], n., “goose footprints,” sundry traces.  7.鴻烈 [hong2lie4], adj., great, meritorious.  8.鴻門宴 [hong2men2yan4], n., (AC, allu.) a dinner at 鴻門 where treachery (murder of invited guest) was planned.  9.鴻蒙 [hong2meng2], n., (AC) primordial world, before the universe was formed (also wr. 濛).  10.鴻雁 [hong2yan4], n., the wild goose, reputed in literary tradition as messenger carrying letters (see also 雁 51A.11); mail.