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殺雞給猴看 (saat3 gai1 kap1 hau4 hon3) — "kill a chicken in front of a monkey" -- make an example out of someone (by punishing them) to frighten others in Cantonese

saat˗₃殺gaiˉ¹雞kapˉ¹給hauˎ₄猴hon˗₃看
简 杀鸡给猴看
Mandarin Pinyin: sha1 ji1 gei3 hou2 kan4

Meaning of 殺雞給猴看

noun"kill a chicken in front of a monkey" -- make an example out of someone (by punishing them) to frighten others

Characters in 殺雞給猴看

殺saat3
abate; weaken; spoil
雞gai1
a prostitute or a woman in a sexual capacity
給kap1
make sb suffer; cause sb harm
猴hau4
the monkey; ape
看hon3
judge; consider; think as

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