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Usage of the character 鶩

[鶩]
  • duck
chíwù
驰鹜
[馳鶩]
  • variant of 馳騖/驰骛 (chíwù)
jīwù
鸡鹜
[雞鶩]
  • petty or mean persons
wùlíng
鹜舲
[鶩舲]
  • small boat
kèhúlèiwù
刻鹄类鹜
[刻鵠類鶩]
  • to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
  • to fail utterly in trying to copy something
  • to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
qūzhīruòwù
趋之若鹜
[趨之若鶩]
  • to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable
  • an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase