敢為人先 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 敢为人先 gǎnwéirénxiān ㄍㄢˇ ㄨㄟˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄒㄧㄢ to dare to be first to pioneer (idiom) Character by character 敢(gǎn)dare 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 人(rén)person 先(xiān)beforehand A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0