殺一儆百

See also: 杀一儆百

Chinese

		to kill; to murder; to slaughter	one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	warn; admonish	hundred
trad. (殺一儆百)		殺	一	儆	百
simp. (杀一儆百)		杀	一	儆	百
alternative forms		殺一警百／杀一警百
Literally: “kill one, warn hundred”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāyījǐngbǎi

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄧ ㄐㄧㄥˇ ㄅㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saat³ jat¹ ging² baak³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sat-it-kéng-pek / sat-it-kèng-pek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāyījǐngbǎi [Phonetic: shāyījíngbǎi]
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄧ ㄐㄧㄥˇ ㄅㄞˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shayijǐngbǎi
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹-i¹-ching³-pai³
    • Yale: shā-yī-jǐng-bǎi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaijiingbae
    • Palladius: шаицзинбай (šaiczinbaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ i⁵⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saat³ jat¹ ging² baak³
    • Yale: saat yāt gíng baak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saat⁸ jat⁷ ging² baak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: sad³ yed¹ ging² bag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːt̚³ jɐt̚⁵ kɪŋ³⁵ paːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sat-it-kéng-pek
    • Tâi-lô: sat-it-kíng-pik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sat'itkefngpeg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sat̚³²⁻⁴ it̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ piɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sat-it-kèng-pek
    • Tâi-lô: sat-it-kìng-pik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sat'itkeangpeg
    • IPA (Taipei): /sat̚³²⁻⁴ it̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ piɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sat̚³²⁻⁴ it̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ piɪk̚³²/

Idiom

殺一儆百

1. to warn by example

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

See also

• 以儆效尤 (yǐjǐngxiàoyóu)