不得已 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. bùdéyǐ ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄧˇ 男 女 to act against one's will to have no alternative but to to have to to have no choice must Character by character 不(bù)no 得(dé)get 已(yǐ)already Words with 不得已 Ending with 不得已 迫不得已 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT