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HSK
to do something to sb / to deal with / to cope / how? / to no avail
to have no way out / to have no alternative
(Tw) nanometer / nano- (prefix meaning "nanoscale")
Nara prefecture in central Japan
have no way out / have no alternative / abbr. to 無奈|无奈
HSK 7-9
Cornell University
to have no alternative; to be helpless
Naiman banner or Naiman khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Sinai Peninsula
Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
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
Nairobi, capital of Kenya (Tw)
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
to have no alternative / frustrated / exasperated / helpless / (conjunction) but unfortunately
HSK 5
Netflix, American entertainment company
Chanel (brand name)
Sinai Peninsula
Mount Sinai
Nigeria (Tw)
Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
Kanagawa, Japan
Nara, an old capital of Japan
Linezolid, a synthetic antibiotic
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
Cornell (University)
Carl Linnaeus / Carl Linné
potassium cyanide KCN
(often used in early vernacular) but alas; however
nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 納秒|纳秒
Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska (Tw)
neper (unit of ratio, Np)
Naiman banner or Naiman khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Kenai (Peninsula, Lake, Mountains), Alaska
(loanword) cyanide / variant of 山柰


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