画蛇添足 huàshétiānzú HSK7 to ruin the effect by adding something superfluous Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 画蛇添足 畫蛇添足 huàshétiānzú to ruin the effect by adding something superfluous to add legs to a snake; to do more than is needed and thus spoil the result or make things worse; to be unnecessary or redundant 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 Cross-References Synonym 多此一举 duōcǐyījǔ弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō蛇足 shézú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
画蛇添足 畫蛇添足 huàshétiānzú to ruin the effect by adding something superfluous to add legs to a snake; to do more than is needed and thus spoil the result or make things worse; to be unnecessary or redundant 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 Cross-References Synonym 多此一举 duōcǐyījǔ弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō蛇足 shézú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
