後發制人

Chinese

		back; behind; rear back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later	to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop	system; to make; to manufacture system; to make; to manufacture; to control; to regulate	man; person; people
trad. (後發制人)		後	發	制	人
simp. (后发制人)		后	发	制	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hòufāzhìrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄡˋ ㄈㄚ ㄓˋ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hau⁶ faat³ zai³ jan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hòufāzhìrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˋ ㄈㄚ ㄓˋ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hòufajhìhrén
    • Wade–Giles: hou⁴-fa¹-chih⁴-jên²
    • Yale: hòu-fā-jr̀-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: howfajyhren
    • Palladius: хоуфачжижэнь (xoufačžižɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xoʊ̯⁵¹ fä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hau⁶ faat³ zai³ jan⁴
    • Yale: hauh faat jai yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hau⁶ faat⁸ dzai³ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: heo⁶ fad³ zei³ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯²² faːt̚³ t͡sɐi̯³³ jɐn²¹/

Idiom

後發制人

1. to gain mastery by striking only after the enemy had struck

   • 都是雙方強弱不同，弱者先讓一步，後發制人，因而戰勝的。 [MSC, trad.]
     都是双方强弱不同，弱者先让一步，后发制人，因而战胜的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Dōu shì shuāngfāng qiángruò bùtóng, ruòzhě xiān ràng yībù, hòufāzhìrén, yīn'ér zhànshèng de. [Pinyin]

     In each case the contending sides were unequal, and the weaker side, yielding some ground at first, gained mastery by striking only after the enemy had struck and so defeated the stronger side.

Antonyms

• 先發制人／先发制人 (xiānfāzhìrén)