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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 不择手段

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
不择手段 bù zé shǒu duàn - by fair means or foul
- by hook or by crook
- unscrupulously

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 - 8,650 24,556 20,637

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
- to select
- to choose
- to pick over
- to pick out
- to differentiate
- to eliminate
- also pr. [zhai2]
shǒu- hand
- (formal) to hold
- person engaged in certain types of work
- person skilled in certain types of work
- personal(ly)
- convenient
- classifier for skill
- CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
duàn- surname Duan
duàn- paragraph
- section
- segment
- stage (of a process)
- classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc

Other Words Containing 不择手段

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
不择手段 6 - 8,650 24,556 20,637