無奈

See also: 无奈

Chinese

		not have	how can one help
trad. (無奈)		無	奈
simp. (无奈)		无	奈

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wúnài

(Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄋㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ noi⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mò-nai
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): bô-nāi / bû-nāi

(Teochew, Peng'im): bho⁵ nai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wúnài
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄋㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wúnài
  - Wade–Giles: wu²-nai⁴
  - Yale: wú-nài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wunay
  - Palladius: унай (unaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ naɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mou⁴ noi⁶
  - Yale: mòuh noih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ noi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ noi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ nɔːi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mò-nai
  - Hakka Romanization System: moˇ nai
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mo² nai⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /mo¹¹ nai̯⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bô-nāi
  - Tâi-lô: bô-nāi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boinai
  - IPA (Taipei): /bo²⁴⁻¹¹ nãi³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ²³⁻³³ nãi³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bû-nāi
  - Tâi-lô: bû-nāi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bunai
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bu²⁴⁻²² nãi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bu²⁴⁻¹¹ nãi³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu²³⁻³³ nãi³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu¹³⁻²² nãi²²/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bu²⁴⁻²² nãi²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bho⁵ nai⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bô năi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ nai³⁵/

Verb

無奈

to be without an alternative; to be helpless

Conjunction

無奈

however; but

Synonyms

但是 (dànshì)

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