"Likeness" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xiào xiàng portrait (painting, photo etc) / (in a general sense) representation of a person / likeness
 rén xiàng likeness of a person (sketch, photo, sculpture etc)
 huà hǔ lèi quǎn to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
 líng xī yī diǎn tōng mental rapport / likeness of mind / spiritual link
 huà hǔ bù chéng fǎn lèi quǎn to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
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