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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「有心無力」 here, with meaning and examples.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「有心無力」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

There are wishes and intentions, but no power to realize them.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǒu xīn wú lì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau5 sam1 mou4 lik6

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.