不得已
bù​dé​yǐ HSK7

to have no choice

不得已 bù​dé​yǐ
to have no choice verb
to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to do something

不要驾车去威尼斯，除非你不得已。

bù​yào jià chē qù wēi​ní​sī, chú​fēi nǐ bù​dé​yǐ.

Don't drive to Venice unless you have to.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.67 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
4.07 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Same as

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)