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画蛇添足
huà​shé​tiān​zú HSK7

overdo

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
画蛇添足 (畫蛇添足) huà​shé​tiān​zú
overdo idiom
to ruin the effect by adding something superfluous or unnecessary

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.360 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.369 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)