to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable; an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase
trad. 趨之若鶩
Also written 趨之若鶩【qū zhī ruò wù】
Characters in this word
4趋
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to hasten, to hurry, to walk fast, to approach, to tend towards, to converge
- Pinyin
- qū
- Traditional
- 趨
- Strokes
- 12
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
若
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used in 般若[bo1 re3], used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]
- Pinyin
- rě
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 913 of 2500
鹜
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duck
- Pinyin
- wù
- Traditional
- 鶩
- Strokes
- 14