刻鹄类鹜
Traditional form:
刻鵠類鶩
Pinyin (reading):
kèhúlèiwù
Definitions:
- 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
Characters:
- 刻 - to carve, to engrave; a quarter hour; a moment
- 鹄 - swan
- 类 - category, class, group, kind; similar to; to resemble
- 鹜 - duck
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