"Powerless" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 无能为力 | wú néng wéi lì | impotent (idiom) / powerless / helpless |   |
| 无力 | wú lì | powerless / lacking strength | |
| 无能 | wú néng | incompetence / inability / incapable / powerless | |
| 无计可施 | wú jì kě shī | no strategy left to try (idiom) / at one's wit's end / at the end of one's tether / powerless | |
| 苍白无力 | cāng bái wú lì | pale and feeble / powerless | |
| 无牙 | wú yá | toothless / (fig.) powerless / ineffectual / weak | |
| 望洋兴叹 | wàng yáng xīng tàn | lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task) | |
| 自身难保 | zì shēn nán bǎo | powerless to defend oneself (idiom) / helpless | |
| 徒呼负负 | tú hū fù fù | to feel powerless and full of shame (idiom) | |
| 无爪 | wú zhuǎ | without claws / fig. powerless | |
