- lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others
- pour encourager les autres
Characters
- 杀 (殺): to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- 一 (一): one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 儆 (儆): to warn; to admonish
- 百 (百): surname Bai
Resources
- Wiktionary: 杀一儆百
- MDBG: 杀一儆百
- Examples with 杀一儆百 on Tatoeba
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