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刻鹄类鹜

kèhúlèiwù

Traditional: 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

Character Breakdown

刻
kè
to carve, to engrave; a quarter hour; a moment
HSK 3
鹄
gǔ
swan
类
lèi
category, class, group, kind; similar to; to resemble
HSK 5
鹜
wù
duck

Additional Information

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Chinese
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