新官上任三把火 Save Sign in to save words xīnguānshàngrènsānbǎhuǒ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄕㄤˋ ㄖㄣˋ ㄙㄢ ㄅㄚˇ ㄏㄨㄛˇ (of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom) Character by character 新(xīn)new 官(guān)surname Guan 上(shàng)up 任(rèn)assign 三(sān)surname San 把(bǎ)marks the object before the verb 火(huǒ)surname Huo A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0