奈
nài HSK5

but

奈 nài
how
(literary) how; what (used in questions or expressions of futility frequently with 何 hé)
to deal with
(bound form) to deal with; to handle; to cope with
[phonetic]
(bound form) used for its phonetic value in writing foreign names or words
to endure
(literary) to endure; to withstand; same as 耐 nài
surname
a Chinese surname
but
(literary) but; however; unfortunately (expressing an unexpected turn or obstacle, often as 无奈 wú​nài or 怎奈 zěn​nài)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,624th most common 59.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,719th most common 31.0 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.0 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
14.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5948

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)