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.