Read Edit View history 杀鸡吓猴 shājīxiàhóu to punish someone as a warning to others Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 杀鸡吓猴 殺雞嚇猴 shājīxiàhóu to punish someone as a warning to others (idiom) literally "killing the chicken to scare the monkey"; to punish a person in order to frighten or warn others Frequency Written text 0.019 per million Cross-References Variant of 杀鸡骇猴 shājīhàihóu Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
杀鸡吓猴 殺雞嚇猴 shājīxiàhóu to punish someone as a warning to others (idiom) literally "killing the chicken to scare the monkey"; to punish a person in order to frighten or warn others Frequency Written text 0.019 per million Cross-References Variant of 杀鸡骇猴 shājīhàihóu Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)