对不起

對不起traditional

HSK 1#1577 by frequencyradical 寸

duì bu qǐ["v"]

I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint

Examples

对不起。

I'm sorry.

对不起！

Sorry!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.