邯郸学步

邯
邯
郸
鄲
学
學
步
步
to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom) / slavishly copying others, one risks becoming a caricature

Characters and words in 邯郸学步

邯
hán = h + an2
name of a district in Hebei
邯
邯
郸
鄲
Handan prefecture-level city in Hebei / also Handan county
郸
鄲
da̅n = d + an1
name of a district in Hebei
学
學
xué = xu + e2
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology
学 = 小 + 冖 + 子 : Xu Xian wants to study scienceology and learn more about daisies. Just inside the elevator's kitchen, he put some daisies into a prize cup and covered them with a cooking top. He wants to study the growth rate of the daisies depending on the pH of the water in the prize cup.
学
學
步
步
to learn to walk / (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress / to get started on the learning curve
步
bù = bu + Ø4
surname Bu
步
bù = bu + Ø4
a step / a pace / walk / march / stages in a process / situation
步 = 止 + 丨 + 丶 + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a five-paced viper, 五步蛇.

Bruno Bear (bu) was strolling (步) around the space station's bathroom (Ø4) with a dinosaur bone (丨) as walking (步) stick in his hands. He disregarded the barrier (止) marking the wild, forbidden area lightheartedly and just jumped over it whistling a joyful tune. But shortly afterwards he made a terrible realization: only five paces (步)away there was a five-paced viper (步) hiding under a petal leaf (丶)! Bruno knew the viper was after him, so he tried to keep it at distance using his dinosaur bone and feeding it bananas (丿) while at the same time slowly backing up to the barrier.

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