Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 鹜

duck

variant of 馳騖／驰骛 (chíwù)

petty or mean persons

small boat

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

to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable
an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase