Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jǐng
English
- warn
- to warn
- warning
- to admonish
Variants
Words containing 儆
- 儆惜geng6 sek3
Respect and treasure
- 儆住geng6 zyu6
carefully; in an attentive manner
- 儆錫geng6 sek3
to take good care of; to value and carefully protect; introduced from Hakka
- 儆戒ging2 gaai3
to warn
- 殺一儆百saat3 jat1 ging2 baak3
lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others
- 殺雞儆猴saat3 gai1 ging2 hau4
(lit.) to kill the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom)
- 懲一儆百cing4 jat1 ging2 baak3
lit. punish one to warn one hundred (idiom)
- 以儆效尤ji5 ging2 haau6 jau4
(idiom) to warn against following bad examples; as a warning to others
- 儆惡懲奸ging2 ok3 cing4 gaan1
to warn people to refrain from doing evil and punish the wicked
- 要儆錫啲jiu3 geng6 sek3 di1