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刻鵠類鶩 (刻鹄类鹜)

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
鵠
=
告
+
鳥
類
=
米
+
犬
+
頁
鶩
=
敄
+
鳥

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