力不从心 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 力不從心 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. lìbùcóngxīn ㄌㄧˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ 男 女 to lack the ability to do what one would wish idiom Character by character 力(lì)power 不(bù)no 从(cóng)from 心(xīn)heart A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT