lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others; pour encourager les autres
trad. 殺一儆百
Also written 殺一儆百【shā yī jǐng bǎi】
Characters in this word
4杀
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to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack, to weaken; to reduce, (dialect) to smart, (used after a verb) extremely
- Pinyin
- shā
- Traditional
- 殺
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 218 of 2500
一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
儆
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to warn, to admonish
- Pinyin
- jǐng
- Strokes
- 14
百
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surname Bai
- Pinyin
- Bǎi
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 14161 of 2500