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爱莫能助
ài​mò​néng​zhù

willing but unable to help

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
爱莫能助 愛莫能助 ài​mò​néng​zhù
willing but unable to help
(idiom) unable to help despite wanting to; to sympathize but be powerless to assist; to have one's hands tied

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.800 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.406 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)