杀鸡儆猴 shājījǐnghóu to punish someone as a warning to others Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 杀鸡儆猴 殺雞儆猴 shājījǐnghóu to punish someone as a warning to others (idiom) literally to kill the chicken to warn the monkey; to punish an individual as an example to others to deter them from doing wrong Frequency Written text 0.158 per million Cross-References Variant of 杀鸡警猴 shājījǐnghóuSynonym 杀一儆百 shāyījǐngbǎiHas variant 杀鸡骇猴 shājīhàihóu Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
杀鸡儆猴 殺雞儆猴 shājījǐnghóu to punish someone as a warning to others (idiom) literally to kill the chicken to warn the monkey; to punish an individual as an example to others to deter them from doing wrong Frequency Written text 0.158 per million Cross-References Variant of 杀鸡警猴 shājījǐnghóuSynonym 杀一儆百 shāyījǐngbǎiHas variant 杀鸡骇猴 shājīhàihóu Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
