没办法

沒辦法
méibànfǎ
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 there's nothing to be done
  2. 2 can't be helped
  3. 3 no way around it

Examples

Xià yǔ le, méi bànfǎ, wǒmen gǎitiān zài qù ba.
It's raining — nothing we can do, let's go another day.
Tā jiùshì zhè zhǒng xìnggé, nǐ ná tā méi bànfǎ.
That's just how he is — you can't do anything about him.
Duìbuqǐ, zhè jiàn shì wǒ zhēn de méi bànfǎ.
Sorry, there's really nothing I can do about this.

Tips

usage
Extremely common — used both as a standalone interjection ('what can you do?') and as a verb phrase ('can't help it / can't do anything about it'). The fixed pattern X 没办法 means 'have no way to deal with X'.

Stroke Order

méi
bàn