杀鸡儆猴 殺雞儆猴
杀鸡儆猴殺雞儆猴 in English
- lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
杀
These are the forms of 殺, the traditional character: 杀 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
鸡
These are the forms of 雞, the traditional character: 鸡 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
儆
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Small seal script - See all 3 forms
猴
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).