不得已
HSK 6 · Proficient
不得已 Stroke Order: How to Write 不得已
- Pinyin
- bù dé yǐ
- Meaning
- to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to; to have to
- Total strokes
- 18
More meanings
to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to; to have to; to have no choice; must
Preparing your character…
Every character begins with a single stroke.
One stroke at a time
4 strokes不 — 4 strokes
Radical: 一 yī (one)
Strokes in order
- 1.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 2.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
- 3.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 4.捺nà · Right-falling stroke
得 — 11 strokes
Radical: 彳 chì (to step with the left foot)
Strokes in order
- 1.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
- 2.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
- 3.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 4.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 5.横折héng zhé · Horizontal turning stroke
- 6.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 7.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 8.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 9.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 10.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
- 11.点diǎn · Dot stroke
已 — 3 strokes
Radical: 己 jǐ (self, oneself)
Strokes in order
- 1.横折héng zhé · Horizontal turning stroke
- 2.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 3.竖折shù zhé · Vertical turning stroke