Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「照貓畫虎」.
The idiom 「照貓畫虎」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
A metaphor for imitating something.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhào māo huà hǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jiu3 maau1 wa2/waak6 fu2
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
