无能为力 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 無能為力 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. wúnéngwéilì ㄨˊ ㄋㄥˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄌㄧˋ 男 女 powerless to do anything about it idiom Character by character 无(wú)not to have 能(néng)can 为(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 力(lì)power 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