刻鹄类鹜 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 刻鵠類鶩 kèhúlèiwù ㄎㄜˋ ㄏㄨˊ ㄌㄟˋ ㄨˋ 男 女 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 Character by character 刻(kè)carve 鹄(hú)swan 类(lèi)kind 鹜(wù)duck Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0