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不得已而为之

bù dé yǐ ér wéi zhī

6-character word Traditional 不得已而為之

What 不得已而为之 means

1. to have no other choice
2. to be the last resort

The characters in 不得已而为之

• 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
• 而érand; as well as; and so
• 为wéias (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her