lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others
trad. 殺雞給猴看
Also written 殺雞給猴看【shā jī gěi hóu kàn】
Characters in this word
5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
鸡
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fowl, chicken, CL:隻|只[zhi1], (slang) prostitute
- Pinyin
- jī
- Traditional
- 雞
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 2753 of 2500
给
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to, for, for the benefit of, to give, to allow, to do sth (for sb), (grammatical equivalent of 被), (grammatical equivalent of 把), (sentence intensifier)
- Pinyin
- gěi
- Traditional
- 給
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 40 of 2500
猴
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monkey, CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- hóu
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 15168 of 2500
看
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to look after, to take care of, to watch, to guard
- Pinyin
- kān
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 67 of 2500