不得已 (bùdéyǐ) means No choice but to. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他是 不得已 才向朋友借钱的。
Tā shì bùdéyǐ cái xiàng péngyou jièqián de.
He only borrowed money from a friend because he had no choice.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 不得已
这是 不得已 的选择，不是最好的选择。
Zhè shì bùdéyǐ de xuǎnzé, bú shì zuì hǎo de xuǎnzé.
This is a choice made out of necessity, not the best choice.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 不得已
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How is 不得已 used in a sentence?
This page shows 2 sentences using 不得已 (bùdéyǐ, "No choice but to"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 不得已 an HSK word?
Yes — 不得已 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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The dictionary page for 不得已 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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