kè hú lèi wù
Traditional: 刻鵠類鶩
刻鹄类鹜 (kè hú lèi wù) is a Chinese word meaning “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”.
Meanings
- 1to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)
- 2to fail utterly in trying to copy something
- 3to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result