焉能
yān​néng

how can

  • created sense approved 焉能 · yān​néng · how can — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    焉能

    yān​néng

    how can

    (literary) how can one possibly; used in rhetorical questions to suggest something is impossible

    焉 (literal) → 焉 · yān · how 能 (literal) → 能 · néng · can

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense