依葫芦画瓢 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 依葫蘆畫瓢 yīhúluhuàpiáo ㄧ ㄏㄨˊ ˙ㄌㄨ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄆㄧㄠˊ lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification Character by character 依(yī)depend on 葫(hú) 芦(lu)rush 画(huà)draw 瓢(piáo)dipper Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0