粵

刻hak1鵠huk6類leoi6鶩mou6

simp刻鹄类鹜
hak1 huk6 leoi6 mou6kè hú lèi wù

English

  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

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese

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