先发制人 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 先發制人 xiānfāzhìrén ㄒㄧㄢ ㄈㄚ ㄓˋ ㄖㄣˊ to gain the initiative by striking first to preempt idiom Character by character 先(xiān)beforehand 发(fā)send out 制(zhì)system 人(rén)person A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0