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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「不教而殺」 and how it’s used.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「不教而殺」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Teach: educate; kill: punish, kill. Death without warning. It means not educating people beforehand and punishing them as soon as they make a mistake.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù jiāo ér shā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 gaau3 yi4 saat3

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