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刻鹄类鹜
刻鵠類鶩
kèhúlèiwù
1. to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
2. to fail utterly in trying to copy something
3. to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result

Character Breakdown

刻
kè
to carve, to engrave; a quarter hour; a moment
HSK 3 8 丶
鹄
gǔ
swan
12 丶
类
lèi
category, class, group, kind; similar to; to resemble
HSK 5 9 丶
鹜
wù
duck
14 丶

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