畫虎不成反類犬

to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

surname Cheng

to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth

contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system

dog / Kangxi radical 94

tiger / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

won't do / unable to / (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?

to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]

kind / type / class / category / similar / like / to resemble