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爱莫能助
ài​mò​néng​zhù

powerless

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
爱莫能助 (愛莫能助) ài​mò​néng​zhù
powerless idiom
unable to help despite a desire to do so; having one's hands tied despite sympathizing with the situation

Frequency

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

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)