上行下效 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 上行下傚 shàngxíngxiàxiào ㄕㄤˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄒㄧㄠˋ 男 女 subordinates follow the example of their superiors (idiom) Character by character 上(shàng)up 行(xíng)go 下(xià)down 效(xiào)imitate Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0