The end justifies the means.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不择手段
by fair means or foul
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
by fair means or foul
02
by hook or by crook
03
unscrupulously
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不择手段 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不择手段 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The end does not always justify the means.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不择手段.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不择手段.
Directly before
- 可以不择手段2
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不择手段
What does 不择手段 mean in Chinese?
不择手段 (bùzéshǒuduàn) means by fair means or foul.
How do you pronounce 不择手段?
不择手段 is pronounced bùzéshǒuduàn.
Is 不择手段 an HSK word?
不择手段 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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