不择手段 bùzéshǒuduàn by hook or by crook Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不择手段 不擇手段 bùzéshǒuduàn 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)
不择手段 不擇手段 bùzéshǒuduàn 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)