畫蛇添足 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 画蛇添足 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. huàshétiānzú ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄕㄜˊ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄗㄨˊ 男 女 lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom) fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous to overdo it Character by character 畫(huà)draw 蛇(shé)snake 添(tiān)add 足(zú)foot A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT