殺狗教猴

Chinese

		to kill; to murder; to slaughter	dog	teach; teaching; religion	monkey
trad. (殺狗教猴)		殺	狗	教	猴
simp. (杀狗教猴)		杀	狗	教	猴
Literally: “to kill a dog to teach the monkey”.

Pronunciation

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sat-kiéu-kâu-hèu

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sat-kiéu-kâu-hèu
    • Hakka Romanization System: sad` gieu` gau´ heuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sad⁵ gieu³ gau¹ heu²
    • Sinological IPA: /sat̚² ki̯eu̯³¹ kau̯²⁴ heu̯¹¹/

Idiom

殺狗教猴

1. (Hakka) 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
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