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只得

zhǐ dé

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

只得 (zhǐ dé) means "to have no alternative but to; to be obliged to". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 只得 means

1. to have no alternative but to; to be obliged to

The characters in 只得

• 只zhǐonly; merely; just
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

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