殺雞駭猴
Chinese
to kill; to murder; to slaughter fowl; chicken astonish; startle monkey trad. (殺雞駭猴/殺鷄駭猴) 殺 雞/鷄 駭 猴 simp. (杀鸡骇猴) 杀 鸡 骇 猴 Literally: “to kill the chicken to startle the monkey”.
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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 |
| 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 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 殺狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 殺狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 殺狗教猴, 打狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Hsinchu (Raoping) | 殺狗教猴, 㓾狗教猴, 斬狗教猴 | |
| Yunlin (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 | |
| 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 | |
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