先下手為強 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 先下手为强 xiānxiàshǒuwéiqiáng ㄒㄧㄢ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄕㄡˇ ㄨㄟˊ ㄑㄧㄤˊ strike first to gain the upper hand idiom Character by character 先(xiān)beforehand 下(xià)down 手(shǒu)hand 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 強(qiáng)strong 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