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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)

言語機能げんごきのう

language faculty

言語能力げんごのうりょく

(linguistic) competence

learning ability

functionalism

technician

sex instinct

performance characteristic

積載能力せきさいのうりょく

load capacity

潜在能力せんざいのうりょく

potential

超能力者ちょうのうりょくしゃ

person with supernatural power

impotent (person)

psychic

mental capacity

functional group

sensory evaluation

liver function

military capability

smartphone

insolvency

the almighty dollar

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