能
See also: 態
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Translingual
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Han character
能 (radical 130, 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈月心心 (IBPP), four-corner 21211, composition ⿰䏍⿱匕匕)
References
- KangXi: page 981, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29454
- Dae Jaweon: page 1433, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2074, character 1
- Unihan data for U+80FD
Chinese
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能 | |
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variant forms | 䏻 |
Glyph origin
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Shang | Western Zhou | Spring and Autumn | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) | ||
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (能) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
態 | *n̥ʰɯːs |
能 | *nɯː, *nɯːs, *nɯːŋ, *nɯːŋʔ |
螚 | *nɯːs |
褦 | *nɯːs |
Etymology
- “be able to; can; ability”
- Shijing rhymes point to Old Chinese *nə, but the forms with *-ŋ are also archaic (perhaps ancient dialectal variation?).
- Possibly Sino–Tibetan: compare Tibetan ནུས (nus, “be able to; capable; to withstand; capacity; strength; force; power; function; energy”), Burmese နိုင် (nuing, “can, be able to, may; master; win; prevail”). Schuessler (2007) also derives 態 (OC *n̥ʰɯːs, “apparition, bearing, manner”) from this.
- Compare the old Sino–Vietnamese loanword nổi (“be able to; capable”).
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
能
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 可以 (“can; may”) [map] | ||
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Variety | Location | Words |
Classical Chinese | 可, 可以, 得 | |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 可, 可以, 得 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 可以, 能, 能夠 |
Taiwan | 可以, 能, 能夠 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 可以, 得 |
Hong Kong | 可以, 得 | |
Taishan | 可以 | |
Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 做得 |
Liudui (S. Sixian) | 做得, 可以, 使得 | |
Hsinchu (Hailu) | 做得 | |
Dongshi (Dabu) | 使得, 做得 | |
Hsinchu (Raoping) | 做得 | |
Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 會用 | |
Min Dong | Fuzhou | 會使 |
Min Nan | Xiamen | 會使, 會當, 會做, 會用, 會用得, 會得, 會得通, 會通, 通 |
Quanzhou | 會做, 會做得, 會用, 會用得, 會得, 會得通, 會通, 通 | |
Zhangzhou | 會使, 會當, 會用, 會用得, 會得, 會得通, 會通, 通 | |
Taipei | 會使, 會當, 會做得 mT, 會得 mT, 會得通 mT, 通 mT | |
Kaohsiung | 會用得, 會使, 會當 | |
Tainan | 會用得, 會使, 會當 | |
Taichung | 會用得, 會使得 | |
Hsinchu | 會用得, 會使 | |
Lukang | 會使, 會當 | |
Sanxia | 會使, 會當 | |
Yilan | 會使, 會當 | |
Kinmen | 會使, 會當 | |
Magong | 會使, 會當 | |
Penang | 會, 會使 | |
Philippines (Manila) | 會做, 會用, 會用得, 會做得 | |
Note | mT - mainstream Taiwan (no particular region identified) |
Compounds
Derived terms from 能
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Definitions
能
- † Only used in 能始 (“origin, root cause”).
Pronunciation 7
Japanese

Readings
Noun
Synonyms
- (drama): 能楽 (nōgaku)
Korean
Vietnamese
Han character
能 (năng)
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