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
trad. 刻鵠類鶩
Also written 刻鵠類鶩【kè hú lèi wù】
Characters in this word
4刻
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quarter (hour), moment, to carve, to engrave, to cut, oppressive, classifier for short time intervals
- Pinyin
- kè
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 11132 of 2500
鹄
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center or bull's eye of an archery target (old), goal, target
- Pinyin
- gǔ
- Traditional
- 鵠
- Strokes
- 12
类
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kind; type; class; category, (classifier) kind; type, (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
- Pinyin
- lèi
- Traditional
- 類
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 6116 of 2500
鹜
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duck
- Pinyin
- wù
- Traditional
- 鶩
- Strokes
- 14