照葫芦画瓢

照
照
葫
葫
芦
蘆
画
畫
瓢
瓢
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / fig. to copy slavishly

Characters and words in 照葫芦画瓢

照
炤
zhào = zh + ao4
variant of 照[zhao4] / to shine / to illuminate
照
zhào = zh + ao4
according to / in accordance with / to shine / to illuminate / to reflect / to look at (one's reflection) / to take (a photo) / photo / as requested / as before
照 = 昭 + 灬 : James II of England (zh) is taking photos in the aorta's bathroom (ao4) of his grill (灬) which he wants to sell over the internet. The flash (照) of his camera flashes very bright and clear (昭).
葫
hú = hu + Ø2
Allium scorodoprasum / bottle gourd
葫 = 艹 + 胡 : Helga Horse (hu) is growing bottle gourd (葫) on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). For Halloween she decorates the plants with Confucius-style beards (胡).
葫
葫
芦
蘆
calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) / hoist / generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof) / muddled / (poker) full house
芦
蘆
lú = lu + Ø2
rush / reed / Phragmites communis
芦 = 艹 + 户 : Lenny Lemur (lu) is growing reed (芦) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). His garden has a nice wooden swinging door (户) and the soil consists of shredded artificial lawn (艹).
画
畫
huà = hu + a4
to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]
画 = 一 + 田 + 凵 : Helga Horse (hu) decided to make the ashram's bathroom (a4) more beautiful, so she paints (画) her favourite field (田) on the wall using a flute (一). She doesn't watch out for the receptacles (凵) though, and gets shocked as her flute gets stuck in one of them.
瓢
piáo = pi + ao2
dipper / ladle

Words with 照葫芦画瓢

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