Dictionary › 杀一警百

杀一警百

shā yī jǐng bǎi

4-character word Traditional 殺一警百

What 杀一警百 means

1. variant of {杀一儆百|shā yī jǐng bǎi}

The characters in 杀一警百

• 杀shāto kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 警jǐngto alert; to warn; police
• 百bǎihundred; numerous; all kinds of

Sounds the same

Read shā yī jǐng bǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 杀一儆百lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others…