# 无可奈何 (wúkěnàihé)

In Mandarin Chinese, 无可奈何 (wúkěnàihé) means “helpless; having no way out”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: helpless; having no way out
- Pinyin: wúkěnàihé (wu2 ke3 nai4 he2)
- Traditional: 無可奈何
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9

## Examples

- 他对此感到无可奈何。
  Tā duì cǐ gǎndào wúkěnàihé.
  He felt helpless about this situation.

## Characters

- [无](https://hanziro.com/word/wu-without/) (wú): (literary) without; no, not
- [可](https://hanziro.com/word/ke-but-however/) (kě): but, however; can, may
- 奈 (nài): used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
- 何 (hé): what; how

https://hanziro.com/word/wu-ke-nai-he-helpless/

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