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不择手段
bù​zé​shǒu​duàn

by hook or by crook

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
不择手段 不擇手段 bù​zé​shǒu​duàn
by hook or by crook
by hook or by crook; unscrupulously; to use any means, fair or foul, to achieve a goal (usually used in a negative sense)

Frequency

Movie subtitles
4.74 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
2.07 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)