杀鸡取卵 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 殺雞取卵 shājīqǔluǎn ㄕㄚ ㄐㄧ ㄑㄩˇ ㄌㄨㄢˇ lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs Character by character 杀(shā)kill 鸡(jī)fowl 取(qǔ)take 卵(luǎn)egg A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0