殺雞嚇猴

See also: 杀鸡吓猴

Chinese

		to kill; to murder; to slaughter	fowl; chicken	to frighten; to scare; to intimidate to frighten; to scare; to intimidate; to threaten	monkey
trad. (殺雞嚇猴/殺鷄嚇猴)		殺	雞/鷄	嚇	猴
simp. (杀鸡吓猴)		杀	鸡	吓	猴
Literally: “to kill the chicken to scare the monkey”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shājīxiàhóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄐㄧ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄏㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saat³ gai¹ haak³ hau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shājīxiàhóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄐㄧ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄏㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shajisiàhóu
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹-chi¹-hsia⁴-hou²
    • Yale: shā-jī-syà-hóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shajishiahhour
    • Palladius: шацзисяхоу (šaczisjaxou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ ɕi̯ä⁵¹ xoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saat³ gai¹ haak³ hau⁴
    • Yale: saat gāi haak hàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saat⁸ gai¹ haak⁸ hau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sad³ gei¹ hag³ heo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːt̚³ kɐi̯⁵⁵ haːk̚³ hɐu̯²¹/

Idiom

殺雞嚇猴

1. to punish an individual as an example to others

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
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
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

See also

• 以儆效尤 (yǐjǐngxiàoyóu)