无奈 wúnài▶ no tener elección

Stroke order

无奈 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 无 — 4 strokes
• 奈 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. to have no alternative
2. frustrated
3. exasperated
4. helpless
5. (conjunction) but unfortunately

Related words

• 无数Incontable
• 无所谓no puede ser designado como
• 无nada
• 无偿gratis
• 无比extremadamente
• 无知ignorancia

无奈 is pronounced wúnài and means “no tener elección”. HSK 5 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 无奈 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.