刻鹄类鹜

Traditional: 刻鵠類鶩

kè hú lèi wù

Dictionary entry

to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)

What does 刻鹄类鹜 mean?

刻鹄类鹜 (kè hú lèi wù) has the following dictionary meaning.

1to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)

2to fail utterly in trying to copy something

3to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result

Character breakdown

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刻kèquarter (hour) · moment 鹄gǔcenter or bull's eye of an archery target (old) · goal 类lèikind; type; class; category · (classifier) kind; type 鹜wùduck

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