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刻鹄类鹜

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4-character word Traditional 刻鵠類鶩

What 刻鹄类鹜 means

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

The characters in 刻鹄类鹜

• 刻kèquarter (hour); moment; to carve
• 鹄gǔcenter or bull's eye of an archery target (old); goal; target
• 类lèikind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble…
• 鹜wùduck