由不得 yóubude to be beyond control Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 由不得 yóubude to be beyond control To be out of one's hands or beyond one's control; to not allow someone to have their way. cannot help Used as an adverb to mean cannot help but or involuntarily. Frequency Written text 0.949 per million Cross-References Synonym 不由得 bùyóudeSame as 不由人 bùyóurén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
由不得 yóubude to be beyond control To be out of one's hands or beyond one's control; to not allow someone to have their way. cannot help Used as an adverb to mean cannot help but or involuntarily. Frequency Written text 0.949 per million Cross-References Synonym 不由得 bùyóudeSame as 不由人 bùyóurén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
