殺雞儆猴
See also: 杀鸡儆猴
Chinese
| to kill; to murder; to slaughter | fowl; chicken | warn; admonish | monkey | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (殺雞儆猴/殺鷄儆猴) | 殺 | 雞/鷄 | 儆 | 猴 | |
| simp. (杀鸡儆猴) | 杀 | 鸡 | 儆 | 猴 | |
| alternative forms | 殺雞警猴／殺鷄警猴／杀鸡警猴 殺雞驚猴／殺鷄驚猴／杀鸡惊猴 | ||||
| Literally: “to kill the chicken to warn the monkey”. | |||||
Pronunciation
Idiom
殺雞儆猴
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 殺雞嚇猴 (“to punish a wrongdoer as a warning for others”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 殺雞嚇猴, 殺雞駭猴, 殺雞儆猴, 殺雞給猴看, 殺一儆百 | |
| Mandarin | Taiwan | 殺雞儆猴, 殺一儆百 |
| Yantai (Muping) | 打兒騾子馬驚 | |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 殺雞儆猴, 殺一儆百 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 斬狗教猴 |
| Yudu | 殺雞教猴 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 殺狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 殺狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 殺狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 殺狗教猴, 打狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 殺狗教猴, 㓾狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 㓾狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 刣雞教猴 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 刣雞教猴 |
| Quanzhou | 刣雞教猴 | |
| Jinjiang | 刣雞教猴 | |
| Zhangzhou | 刣雞教猴 | |
| Tainan | 刣雞教猴 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 刣雞教猴 | |
| Jieyang | 刣雞教猴 | |
| Leizhou | 刣狗猻乞猿望 | |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 刣雞教猴 |
Descendants
- → Vietnamese: giết gà doạ khỉ (calque)
See also
- 以儆效尤 (yǐjǐngxiàoyóu)
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