只好

只好 zhǐhǎo in a sentence

Be forced to (have to)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 3 sentences

只好 (zhǐhǎo) means Be forced to (have to). Below are 3 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.

From the graded readers

我们没有带伞, 只好 跑回家。

wǒmen méiyǒu dài sǎn, zhǐhǎo pǎo huíjiā.

We hadn't brought an umbrella, so we had to run home.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day

我住在十一楼, 只好 走楼梯。

wǒ zhù zài shíyī lóu, zhǐhǎo zǒu lóutī.

I live on the eleventh floor, so I had to take the stairs.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger

只好 坐出租车,花了五十块钱。

wǒ zhǐhǎo zuò chūzūchē, huāle wǔshí kuài qián.

I had to take a taxi, which cost fifty yuan.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work

Questions about 只好

How is 只好 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 只好 (zhǐhǎo, "Be forced to (have 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 只好 an HSK word?

Yes — 只好 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 只好?

The dictionary page for 只好 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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