不得已而為之 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 不得已而为之 bùdéyǐérwéizhī ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄧˇ ㄦˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄓ to have no other choice to be the last resort Character by character 不(bù)no 得(dé)get 已(yǐ)already 而(ér)and 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0