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先下手为强
xiān​xià​shǒu​wéi​qiáng

strike first

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
先下手为强 (先下手為強) xiān​xià​shǒu​wéi​qiáng
strike first
to strike first to gain the upper hand

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.01 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.635 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)