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画虎类犬

画虎类犬 huà hǔ 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
画 huà to draw; to paint / picture; painting (CL:幅,张) / to draw (a line) (variant of 划) / stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 划) / (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 划)
 虎 hǔ tiger / CL:只
  类 lèi kind; type; class; category / (classifier) kind; type / (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
   犬 quǎn (literary) dog / Kangxi radical 94
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