不择手段
Simplified word
不擇手段
Traditional word
不择手段 English definition
bù zé shǒu duàn
- by fair means or foul
- by hook or by crook
- unscrupulously
bù zé shǒu duàn
- by fair means or foul
- by hook or by crook
- unscrupulously
HSK level
Characters
- 不 (bù): (negative prefix); not; no;
- 择 (zé): to select; to choose; to pick over; to pick out; to differentiate; to eliminate; also pr. [zhai2];
- 手 (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];
- 段 (duàn): paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc;