只能

zhǐnéng

adverb HSK 2 #1,104

Meanings

1 can only
2 have no choice but

Characters

Examples

没有车，我们只能走路。

Méiyǒu chē, wǒmen zhǐnéng zǒulù.

There's no car, so we can only walk.

他只能说英文。

Tā zhǐnéng shuō Yīngwén.

He can only speak English.

现在只能等了。

Xiànzài zhǐnéng děng le.

Now we can only wait.

Stroke Order

只 zhǐ

能 néng