Memory phrase for the character: 奈

奈

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Meaning

what, how can one help

Pronunciation

nài

Explanation

 Top: big 大, bottom: to show, altar 示 (image of an altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and dripping blood 八)

Mnemonic
 
A big altar? What, how can that help?

Radicals

大 big, hugeA person 人 with outspread arms 一 appears big.
示 to show, altarShows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.




 Vocabulary

无可奈何 wú kě nài hé  have no way out; have no alternative
奈何 nài hé  to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail
无奈 wú nài  without choice; for lack of better option; grudgingly; willy-nilly; nolens volens
 

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