对不起

Pinyin: duì bù qǐ

sorry

Example sentence

对不起,我来晚了。

Duìbùqǐ, wǒ lái wǎn le.

Sorry, I'm late.

What 对不起 means

对不起 (duì bù qǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “sorry”. It belongs to the Particles & Phrases topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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