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能

JLPT N3 SL5 10 strokes Frequency: #273

Meanings

Ability, Talent, Skill, Capacity

Radicals

⺼

Decomposition

⿰⿱厶⺼⿱匕匕

Etymology

Pictographic: A bear's head 厶, body ⺼, and claws 匕

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 10

Stroke Order

1 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

2 dot right-to-left

3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

4 hook bottom-to-top

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 diagonal right-to-left

8 curve right-to-left

9 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ノウ nou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

よ yo

Words Using This Kanji

473 words total

Other (20 words)

能動光学のうどうこうがく

active optics (telescope)

コールバック機能コールバックきのう

call-back function

国際技能競技大会こくさいぎのうきょうぎたいかい

WorldSkills Competition

技能オリンピックぎのうオリンピック

Skill Olympics

流動性知能りゅうどうせいちのう

fluid intelligence

結晶性知能けっしょうせいちのう

crystallized intelligence

高性能減水剤こうせいのうげんすいざい

superplasticizer

能太夫のうだゆう

high-ranking noh actor

能動性のうどうせい

activity

本能寺の変ほんのうじのへん

Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)

装束能しょうぞくのう

formal noh performed in full costume

母性本能ぼせいほんのう

maternal instinct

冷却機能れいきゃくきのう

cooling capabilities

人工放射能じんこうほうしゃのう

artificial radioactivity

放射能量ほうしゃのうりょう

amount of radioactivity

予測不能よそくふのう

unpredictable

理解不能りかいふのう

impossible to understand

高次脳機能障害こうじのうきのうしょうがい

higher brain dysfunction

性機能障害せいきのうしょうがい

sexual dysfunction

能平のっぺい

soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

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