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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shājījǐnghóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄐㄧ ㄐㄧㄥˇ ㄏㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saat³ gai¹ ging² hau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shājījǐnghóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄐㄧ ㄐㄧㄥˇ ㄏㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shajijǐnghóu
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹-chi¹-ching³-hou²
    • Yale: shā-jī-jǐng-hóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shajijiinghour
    • Palladius: шацзицзинхоу (šacziczinxou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xoʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shājījǐnghóur
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄐㄧ ㄐㄧㄥˇ ㄏㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shajijǐnghóur
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹-chi¹-ching³-hou²-ʼrh
    • Yale: shā-jī-jǐng-hóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shajijiinghourl
    • Palladius: шацзицзинхоур (šacziczinxour)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saat³ gai¹ ging² hau⁴
    • Yale: saat gāi gíng hàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saat⁸ gai¹ ging² hau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sad³ gei¹ ging² heo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːt̚³ kɐi̯⁵⁵ kɪŋ³⁵ hɐu̯²¹/

Idiom

殺雞儆猴

1. (figurative) to make a public demonstration of punishing a wrongdoer in order to deter innocents who might mimic the example of the wrongdoer

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 殺雞嚇猴 (“to punish a wrongdoer as a warning for others”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
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
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	殺雞儆猴, 殺一儆百
Jiaoliao Mandarin	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
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	刣雞教猴
Southern Min	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)