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to have no alternative / frustrated / exasperated / helpless / (conjunction) but unfortunately
HSK 5
have no way out / have no alternative / abbr. to 無奈|无奈
HSK 7-9
Netflix, American entertainment company
Nara prefecture in central Japan
(Tw) nanometer / nano- (prefix meaning "nanoscale")
Cornell University
to have no alternative; to be helpless
(often used in early vernacular) but alas; however
to do something to sb / to deal with / to cope / how? / to no avail
Chanel (brand name)
Ithaca, a Greek island / Ithaca, New York, location of Cornell University 康奈爾大學|康奈尔大学
nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (PRC) / Taiwan equivalent: 奈秒
Sinai Peninsula
Kamakura city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县, Japan
Carl Linnaeus / Carl Linné
potassium cyanide KCN
Nara, an old capital of Japan
Nigeria (Tw)
Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奈* | 奈* | *奈
used in expressions that convey frustration and futility, such as 無奈|无奈 and 莫可奈何 (literary) / used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
Sinai Peninsula
to have no way out / to have no alternative
Naiman banner or Naiman khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter
Madras or Chennai 欽奈|钦奈, capital of Tamil Nadu on East coast of India
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈 / formerly Madras state 馬德拉斯邦|马德拉斯邦
Ithaca, New York, location of Cornell University 康奈爾大學|康奈尔大学
Kanagawa, Japan
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
Nairobi, capital of Kenya (Tw)
Yokohama, major port city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县, Japan
Mount Sinai
Hōryūji, complex of Buddhist temples near Nara 奈良, Japan, dating back to the Asuka period 飛鳥時代|飞鸟时代 (c. 600)
Naiman banner or Naiman khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska
neper (unit of ratio, Np)
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
Linezolid, a synthetic antibiotic
Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska (Tw)
Cornell (University)
Taiwan equivalent of 莫奈
nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 納秒|纳秒
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈 / formerly Madras state 馬德拉斯邦|马德拉斯邦
Chennai, capital of southeast Indian state Tamil Nadu 泰米爾納德邦|泰米尔纳德邦 / formerly called Madras 馬德拉斯|马德拉斯
(loanword) cyanide / variant of 山柰


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