Read Edit View history 先发制人 xiānfāzhìrén to strike first Origin Definitions Defs 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)