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敢为人先
gǎn​wéi​rén​xiān

to dare to be first

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
敢为人先 敢為人先 gǎn​wéi​rén​xiān
to dare to be first
To dare to be the first; to be courageous enough to pioneer or lead the way in doing something others have not done yet.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.486 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)