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先声夺人
xiān​shēng​duó​rén

gain initiative

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
先声夺人 (先聲奪人) xiān​shēng​duó​rén
gain initiative idiom
to gain the upper hand by a show of strength

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.775 per million

Sources

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