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以yǐ儆jǐng效xiào尤yóu

  1. (idiom) to warn against following bad examples; as a warning to others

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Characters in this word

4
以
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

old variant of 以[yi3]

Pinyin
yǐ
Traditional
㕥
Strokes
4
Frequency
367 of 2500
Words starting with 以Words ending in 以Anywhere in a word
儆
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to warn, to admonish

Pinyin
jǐng
Strokes
14
Words starting with 儆Words ending in 儆Anywhere in a word
效
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

variant of 傚|效[xiao4]

Pinyin
xiào
Traditional
俲
Strokes
10
Words starting with 效Words ending in 效Anywhere in a word
尤
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname You

Pinyin
Yóu
Strokes
4
Frequency
9424 of 2500
Words starting with 尤Words ending in 尤Anywhere in a word