"愛莫能助" meaning in 漢語

See 愛莫能助 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /ˀaɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu̯ɔ⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /ɔːi̯³³ mɔːk̚² nɐŋ²¹ t͡sɔː²²/ [Cantonese, Standard-Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, IPA] Forms: 爱莫能助 [Simplified-Chinese]
Etymology: 出自《詩經·大雅·烝民》:
  1. 內心雖然同情,想要幫助卻無能為力
    Sense id: zh-愛莫能助-zh-phrase-~bzR5eFZ Categories (other): 有引文的文言文詞
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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      "text": "我儀圖之,維仲山甫舉之,愛莫助之。",
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  "literal_meaning": "情願卻無法幫助",
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          "roman": "Sǒu dà hài yuē: tā jiā kěyǐ wéilì, cǐ zhēn àimònéngzhù yǐ.",
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          "text": "叟大駭曰:他家可以爲力,此真愛莫能助矣。"
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      "zh_pron": "àimònéngzhù"
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      "zh_pron": "ㄞˋ ㄇㄛˋ ㄋㄥˊ ㄓㄨˋ"
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      "zh_pron": "oi³ mok⁶ nang⁴ zo⁶"
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      "zh_pron": "àimònéngjhù"
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      "zh_pron": "ai⁴-mo⁴-nêng²-chu⁴"
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    {
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        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ài-mwò-néng-jù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "aymohnengjuh"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ajmonɛnčžu",
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      "zh_pron": "аймонэнчжу"
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      "ipa": "/ˀaɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu̯ɔ⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/",
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        "Standard-Chinese",
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        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
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      "zh_pron": "oi mohk nàhng joh"
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        "Standard-Cantonese",
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      "zh_pron": "oi³ mok⁹ nang⁴ dzo⁶"
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        "Standard-Cantonese",
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        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oi³ mog⁶ neng⁴ zo⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːi̯³³ mɔːk̚² nɐŋ²¹ t͡sɔː²²/",
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  "word": "愛莫能助"
}
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    "帶「助」的漢語詞",
    "帶「愛」的漢語詞",
    "帶「能」的漢語詞",
    "帶「莫」的漢語詞",
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "有國際音標的漢語詞",
    "有引文的文言文詞",
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      "zh_pron": "ㄞˋ ㄇㄛˋ ㄋㄥˊ ㄓㄨˋ"
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      "zh_pron": "oi³ mok⁶ nang⁴ zo⁶"
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        "Pinyin"
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    {
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      "zh_pron": "ㄞˋ ㄇㄛˋ ㄋㄥˊ ㄓㄨˋ"
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      "zh_pron": "àimònéngjhù"
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      "zh_pron": "ai⁴-mo⁴-nêng²-chu⁴"
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        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ài-mwò-néng-jù"
    },
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        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "aymohnengjuh"
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    {
      "roman": "ajmonɛnčžu",
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      "zh_pron": "аймонэнчжу"
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      "ipa": "/ˀaɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu̯ɔ⁵¹ nɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/",
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        "Standard-Chinese",
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        "Guangzhou",
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        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
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      "zh_pron": "oi mohk nàhng joh"
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        "Standard-Cantonese",
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        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
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      "zh_pron": "oi³ mok⁹ nang⁴ dzo⁶"
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        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oi³ mog⁶ neng⁴ zo⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːi̯³³ mɔːk̚² nɐŋ²¹ t͡sɔː²²/",
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        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
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  "word": "愛莫能助"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.