Article nécessitant une mise au propre ====== 燕雀安んぞ鴻鵠の志を知らんや ====== Kanji in this term 燕 雀 安 鴻 鵠 志 知 えん Jinmeiyō じゃく Jinmeiyō いずく Grade: 3 こう Jinmeiyō こく Hyōgai こころざし Grade: 5 し Grade: 2 kan'on kun'yomi kan'on kun'yomi Etymology From the 史記 (Shiki, “Records of the Grand Historian”).[1][2][3] Calque of Literary Chinese 燕雀安知鴻鵠志 (yànquè ān zhī hónghú zhì, literally “[small birds such as] swallows and sparrows cannot understand the aspirations of [large birds such as] swans”). Proverb 燕えん雀じゃく安いずくんぞ鴻こう鵠こくの志こころざしを知しらんや • (enjaku izukunzo kōkoku no kokorozashi o shiran'ya) an ordinary person cannot understand the ambitions of a great man Derived terms 鴻鵠こうこくの志こころざし (kōkoku no kokorozashi) References ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN “▲燕▲雀△安んぞ▲鴻▲鵠の志を知らんや”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025 {{tag> proverbe_japonais }}