先发制人 xiānfāzhìrén to strike first Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 先发制人 先發制人 xiānfāzhìrén to strike first (idiom) to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt an opponent in order to control them or gain the upper hand (note: the character 制 zhì should not be mistakenly written as 治 zhì) Frequency Movie subtitles 1.07 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.48 per million Cross-References Antonym 后发制于人 hòufāzhìyúrén后发制人 hòufāzhìrén Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
先发制人 先發制人 xiānfāzhìrén to strike first (idiom) to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt an opponent in order to control them or gain the upper hand (note: the character 制 zhì should not be mistakenly written as 治 zhì) Frequency Movie subtitles 1.07 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.48 per million Cross-References Antonym 后发制于人 hòufāzhìyúrén后发制人 hòufāzhìrén Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
