趁热打铁 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 趁熱打鐵 chènrèdǎtiě ㄔㄣˋ ㄖㄜˋ ㄉㄚˇ ㄊㄧㄝˇ to strike while the iron is hot Character by character 趁(chèn)avail oneself of 热(rè)warm up 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 铁(tiě)surname Tie A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0