Read Edit View history 刻鹄成鹜 kèhúchéngwù successful imitation Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Senses Add sense 刻鹄成鹜/ 刻鵠成鶩 kèhúchéngwù successful imitation (idiom) to carve a swan and end up with a duck; to aim high and achieve a respectable result even if it falls short of the original ideal Edit Delete References Add reference variant 刻鹄类鹜/刻鵠類鶩 → 刻鹄成鹜/刻鵠成鶩 Edit Delete
刻鹄成鹜/ 刻鵠成鶩 kèhúchéngwù successful imitation (idiom) to carve a swan and end up with a duck; to aim high and achieve a respectable result even if it falls short of the original ideal Edit Delete