刻鹄类鹜

刻鹄类鹜	kè hú lèi wù	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
刻	kè	quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals
鹄	gǔ	center or bull's eye of an archery target (old) / goal / target
鹄	hú	swan
类	lèi	kind; type; class; category / (classifier) kind; type / (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
鹜	wù	duck