Chinese–English
刻鹄类鹜
kè hú lèi wù · ke hu lei wu
Traditional 刻鵠類鶩
Meaning
CC-CEDICT- 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
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