先禮後兵 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 先礼后兵 xiānlǐhòubīng ㄒㄧㄢ ㄌㄧˇ ㄏㄡˋ ㄅㄧㄥ 男 女 try persuasion before resorting to force idiom Character by character 先(xiān)beforehand 禮(lǐ)gift 後(hòu)back 兵(bīng)a force 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