画虎成狗
画虎成狗 in English
- (idiom) When one fails to paint a tiger, one ends up painting a dog. It describes a clumsy imitation that produces an incongruous and ridiculous result.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
画
These are the forms of 畫, the traditional character: 画 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
虎
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 20 forms
成
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
狗
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).