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鴻 character · TOCFL C1 (est.)
鴻 ＝ 鳥 ＋ 江
ㄏㄨㄥˊ · hóng
noun/adj — the wild swan, a great goose; vast, grand

字源 FORM — what the parts do

鳥義a bird
江聲jiāng — gives the soundwater 氵 + 工; the great river
{g,k,h}ITjiāng → hóng — the palatal slid back to the {g,k,h} throat
A bird (鳥) with 江 jiāng for the sound — the great wild swan, biggest of the migrating geese. From that bulk comes the grand sense: 鴻圖 a sweeping plan, 鴻運 great fortune, 鴻儒 a towering scholar. The sound wore from j back to the throat, h.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一隻大鳥（鳥）順著江（江）飛南去，翅膀張開蓋住半邊天。
A great bird (鳥) follows the river (江) south, wings spread wide enough to cover half the sky.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)鴻、鴻雁— the wild swan, a great goose常用
→鴻大、鴻圖— vast, grand
⇒鴻運、鴻福— great fortune
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
鵠húits near-mate — 鴻鵠 names the swan together; 鵠 takes 告 for sound江jiāngthe sound donor — 江 is the river alone, 鴻 sets a bird 鳥 beside it