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万不得已
wàn bù dé yǐ
What 万不得已 means
- only when absolutely essential (idiom); as a last resort
The characters in 万不得已
- 万wànten thousand; a great number
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
- 已yǐalready; to stop; then
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