杀鸡给猴看 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 殺雞給猴看 shājīgěihóukàn ㄕㄚ ㄐㄧ ㄍㄟˇ ㄏㄡˊ ㄎㄢˋ lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others Character by character 杀(shā)kill 鸡(jī)fowl 给(gěi)give 猴(hóu)monkey 看(kàn)see A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0