知其不可而为之 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 知其不可而為之 zhīqíbùkěérwéizhī ㄓ ㄑㄧˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄦˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄓ to keep going resolutely despite knowing the task is impossible (idiom) Character by character 知(zhī)know 其(qí)his 不(bù)no 可(kě)can 而(ér)and 为(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0