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依葫芦画瓢
yī hú lu huà piáo
What 依葫芦画瓢 means
- lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom)
- fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification
The characters in 依葫芦画瓢
- 依yīto depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to
- 葫húused in 葫芦
- 芦lúrush; reed; Phragmites communis
- 画huàto draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划
- 瓢piáodipper; ladle
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