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照葫芦画瓢
zhào hú lu huà piáo
What 照葫芦画瓢 means
- lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom)
- fig. to copy slavishly
The characters in 照葫芦画瓢
- 照zhàoaccording to; in accordance with; to shine
- 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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