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先发制人
xiān​fā​zhì​rén

preempt

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
先发制人 (先發制人) xiān​fā​zhì​rén
preempt idiom
to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.07 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.48 per million

Sources

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