下馬威 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 下马威 xiàmǎwēi ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄇㄚˇ ㄨㄟ 男 女 display of severity immediately on taking office initial show of strength fig. Character by character 下(xià)measure word to show the frequency of an action 馬(mǎ)horse 威(wēi)power 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