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From: MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary 漢英字典

 刻鵠類鶩 [ㄎㄜˋ ㄏㄨˊ ㄌㄟˋ ㄨˋ; ke4 hu2 lei4 wu4]
 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
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