Kanji1 / 10
能 kanji
ability, talent, skill, capacity
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ノウ
Kun readings
よくあたう
Words with 能
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —学習能力learning ability
- —機能主義functionalism
- —性能特性performance characteristic
- —積載能力load capacity; loading capacity; carrying capacity
- —潜在能力potential; latent faculties; potential capacities
- —知的能力one's intellectual powers; one's mental faculties
- —超能力者person with supernatural power; person capable of extrasensory perception
- —意思能力mental capacity
- —官能検査sensory evaluation
- —軍事能力military capability
- —支払能力solvency; ability to pay
- —支払不能insolvency
- —生産能力plant and equipment; production equipment; productive capacity
- —生理機能physiological function; physiology
- —防衛能力defense capability; defence capability
- —実行機能executive functioning; function execution
- —無為無能idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time
- —一芸一能(excelling in) one area or skill; (being skilled or gifted in) one certain area
- —応変能力ability to take proper steps to meet the situation; ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment
- —官能小説erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel