1 police

2 police officer

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 (of an animal) to paw (the ground)

1 traffic police

2 abbr. for 交通警察

1 abbr. for 刑事警察[xíng shì jǐng chá]

2 criminal police

1 to scare away

1 to serve as a warning (idiom)

1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)

2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too

1 lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom)

2 fig. to make an example of sb

3 also written 懲一儆百|惩一儆百[chéng yī jǐng bǎi]

1 to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily

2 to bustle about

1 lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others

2 pour encourager les autres