无奈

Pinyin: wúnài

to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 verbconjunction

Example sentence

他对生活感到很无奈。

Tā duìshēng huó gǎndào hěn wúnài.

He feels powerless about his own life.

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What 无奈 means

无奈 (wúnài) is a Chinese word meaning “to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless”. It appears in the HSK 5 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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