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杀鸡骇猴
Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
杀鸡儆猴 (殺雞儆猴) shā​jī​jǐng​hóu
make an example verb
To punish an individual as a warning to others; to use a specific punishment as a deterrent to the group.

Frequency

Written text
0.024 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)