只好

Pinyin: zhǐhǎo

to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to

Example sentence

昨天太冷了,我只好待在家里。

Zuótiān tài lěng le, wǒ zhǐhǎo dài zài jiālǐ.

It was so cold yesterday that I stayed home.

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What 只好 means

只好 (zhǐhǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to”. It appears in the HSK 4 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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