# 无奈 (wúnài)

In Mandarin Chinese, 无奈 (wúnài) means “helpless; no other choice”. It is part of the HSK 5 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: helpless; no other choice
- Pinyin: wúnài (wu2 nai4)
- Traditional: 無奈
- HSK 3.0 · Level 5
- HSK 2.0 · Level 5

## Examples

- 面对这个结果，他感到很无奈。
  Miànduì zhège jiéguǒ, tā gǎndào hěn wúnài.
  Facing this result, he felt very helpless.

## Characters

- [无](https://hanziro.com/word/wu-without/) (wú): (literary) without; no, not
- 奈 (nài): used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words

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

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