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Chinese Character/Word:
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 |
List Ranking:
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 杀 | shā | - to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack - to weaken; to reduce - (dialect) to smart - (used after a verb) extremely |
| 鸡 | jī | - fowl - chicken - CL:隻|只[zhi1] - (slang) prostitute |
| 给 | 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) |
| 给 | jǐ | - to supply - to provide |
| 猴 | hóu | - monkey - CL:隻|只[zhi1] |
| 看 | kān | - to look after - to take care of - to watch - to guard |
| 看 | 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
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
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