先聲奪人 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 先声夺人 xiānshēngduórén ㄒㄧㄢ ㄕㄥ ㄉㄨㄛˊ ㄖㄣˊ to gain the upper hand by a show of strength Character by character 先(xiān)beforehand 聲(shēng)sound 奪(duó)seize 人(rén)person A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0