| 鹜 | |||
| duck | |||
| Radical | 鳥鸟 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 9 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | mù | Cantonese reading | mou6 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 鶩 | duck | |
| 鹜 | |||
| duck | |||
| Radical | 鳥鸟 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 9 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | mù | Cantonese reading | mou6 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 鶩 | duck | |
| 鹜 | [ wù ] duck |
| 鹜舲 | [ wù líng ] small boat |
| ⇒ 刻鹄类鹜 | [ kè hú leì 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 |
| ⇒ 趋之若鹜 | [ qū zhī ruò wù ] to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable, an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase |
| ⇒ 鸡鹜 | [ jī wù ] petty or mean persons |
| ⇒ 驰鹜 | [ chí wù ] variant of 馳騖|驰骛[chi2 wu4] |