先行后闻 xiānxínghòuwén to act first and report later Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 先行 xiānxíng beforehand To do something earlier than other actions or events; in advance后 後 hòu locativepreposition after (bound form) later in time; afterwards; future; subsequent in a sequence闻 聞 wén adjectiveverb to hear (literary) to hear; to catch the sound of something