只好

Pinyin: zhǐ hǎo

to have no choice but

Example sentence

没有车了,只好走路。

Méiyǒu chē le, zhǐhǎo zǒulù.

No buses left — had to walk.

What 只好 means

只好 (zhǐ hǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “to have no choice but”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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