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This feature highlights the idiom 「刻鵠類鶩」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
刻: to carve; 鵠: swan; 類: similar, like; 鶩: duck. The painting of a swan failed, it still looks a bit like a duck. The metaphor is that although the imitation is not realistic, it is still similar.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kè hú lèi wù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hak1 huk6 leui6 mou6
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