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画虎类犬

huà lèi quǎn to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
huà to draw; to paint / picture; painting (CL:,) / to draw (a line) (variant of ) / stroke of a Chinese character (variant of ) / (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of )
  tiger / CL:
   lèi kind; type; class; category / (classifier) kind; type / (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
    quǎn dog / Kangxi radical 94
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