Read Edit View history 由不得 yóubude to be beyond control Origin Definitions Defs 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)