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欲罢不能
yù​bà​bù​néng

unable to stop

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
欲罢不能 (欲罷不能) yù​bà​bù​néng
unable to stop idiom
to be unable to stop oneself or to feel a strong urge to continue an activity due to its attractiveness or momentum

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.390 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.67 per million

Sources

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