無能為力 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 无能为力 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. wúnéngwéilì ㄨˊ ㄋㄥˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄌㄧˋ powerless to do anything about it idiom Character by character 無(wú)not to have 能(néng)can 為(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