照猫画虎 - zhào māo huà hǔ - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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照貓畫虎 (照猫画虎)

(lit.) drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom)
(fig.) to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject
uninspired imitation

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