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刻鹄类鹜 (刻鵠類鶩)

kè hú lèi wù

Definition

  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 Decomposition

刻
=
亥
+
刂
鹄
=
告
+
鸟
类
=
米
+
大
鹜
=
敄
+
鸟

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