不择手段 bùzéshǒuduàn▶ Usar tácticas divisorias sin escrúpulos

Stroke order

不择手段 is written in 25 strokes across 4 characters.

• 不 — 4 strokes
• 择 — 8 strokes
• 手 — 4 strokes
• 段 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. by fair means or foul
2. by hook or by crook
3. unscrupulously

Related words

• 不免inevitable
• 不堪no soportar
• 不妨bien podría
• 不惜no escatimar; no dudar
• 不愧Digno
• 不料Inesperadamente

不择手段 is pronounced bùzéshǒuduàn and means “Usar tácticas divisorias sin escrúpulos”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 不择手段 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.