先斩后奏 xiānzhǎnhòuzòu act unauthorized Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 先斩后奏 (先斬後奏) xiānzhǎnhòuzòu act unauthorized expression to take action or make a decision without the prior approval of higher authorities execute first expression literally to execute a criminal first and then report the action to the emperor Frequency Movie subtitles 0.150 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.284 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
先斩后奏 (先斬後奏) xiānzhǎnhòuzòu act unauthorized expression to take action or make a decision without the prior approval of higher authorities execute first expression literally to execute a criminal first and then report the action to the emperor Frequency Movie subtitles 0.150 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.284 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
