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杀一警百
shā​yī​jǐng​bǎi

to kill one to warn a hundred

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
杀一警百 殺一警百 shā​yī​jǐng​bǎi
to kill one to warn a hundred
to punish an individual as an example to others; to make a public example of someone to deter others from doing the same

Frequency

Written text
0.008 per million

Cross-References

Has variant

  • 杀一儆百 shā​yī​jǐng​bǎi

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)