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打狗还得看主人

dǎ gǒu hái děi kàn zhǔ rén

7-character word Traditional 打狗還得看主人

What 打狗还得看主人 means

1. lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom)
2. fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him

The characters in 打狗还得看主人

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 狗gǒudog
• 还háistill; still in progress; still more
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 看kànto see; to look at; to read; to watch
• 主zhǔowner; master; host
• 人rénperson; people