画虎画皮难画骨 huàhǔhuàpínánhuàgǔ knowing the outside but not the inside Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 画虎画皮难画骨 huàhǔhuàpínánhuàgǔ knowing the outside but not the inside you can paint a tiger's skin but it is hard to paint the bones; it is easy to know a person's appearance but difficult to know their true character Frequency Written text 0.016 per million Cross-References Referenced by 知人知面不知心 zhīrénzhīmiànbùzhīxīn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
画虎画皮难画骨 huàhǔhuàpínánhuàgǔ knowing the outside but not the inside you can paint a tiger's skin but it is hard to paint the bones; it is easy to know a person's appearance but difficult to know their true character Frequency Written text 0.016 per million Cross-References Referenced by 知人知面不知心 zhīrénzhīmiànbùzhīxīn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
