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Definition(s) for: 杀鸡给猴看

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
杀鸡给猴看 shā jī gěi hóu kàn - lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others

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Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 104,849 66,648

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shā- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack
- to weaken; to reduce
- (dialect) to smart
- (used after a verb) extremely
- fowl
- chicken
- CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- (slang) prostitute
gěi- to
- for
- for the benefit of
- to give
- to allow
- to do sth (for sb)
- (grammatical equivalent of 被)
- (grammatical equivalent of 把)
- (sentence intensifier)
- to supply
- to provide
hóu- monkey
- CL:隻|只[zhi1]
kān- to look after
- to take care of
- to watch
- to guard
kàn- to see; to look at
- to read
- to watch
- to visit; to call on
- to consider; to regard as
- to look after
- to treat (a patient or illness)
- to depend on
- to feel (that)
- (after a verb) to give it a try
- to watch out for

Other Words Containing 杀鸡给猴看

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