才能

Character by character

• 才cái3 strokesHSK 2 traditional 纔talent, ability; just, only
• 能néng10 strokesHSK 1to be able; can, permitted to; ability

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Example sentences

• 我有很多才能。

  Wǒ yǒu hěn duō cái néng

  I have many abilities.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 才能. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 能néngHSK 1

  can; to be able to; might possibly; ability; (physics) energy

• 可能kě néngHSK 2

  might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps

• 才cáiHSK 2

  ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only

• 能够néng gòuHSK 2

  to be capable of; to be able to; can

• 能力néng lìHSK 3

  capability; ability

• 只能zhǐ néngHSK 2

  can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice

• 刚才gāng cáiHSK 2

  just now; a moment ago

• 功能gōng néngHSK 3

  function; capability

• 能否néng fǒuHSK 6

  whether or not; can it or can't it; is it possible?

• 人才rén cáiHSK 3

  talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks

• 能量néng liàngHSK 5

  energy; capabilities

• 能不能néng bùnéngHSK 3

  Can you

• 能源néng yuánHSK 7

  energy; power source

• 尽可能jǐn kě néngHSK 5

  as far as possible; to do one's utmost

• 技能jì néngHSK 5

  technical ability; skill

• 天才tiān cáiHSK 5

  talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted

• 智能zhì néngHSK 4

  intelligent; able; smart (phone, system, bomb etc)

• 才华cái huáHSK 7

  talent

• 本能běn néngHSK 7

  instinct

• 万能wàn néngHSK 7

  omnipotent; all-purpose; universal

• 性能xìng néngHSK 5

  function; performance; behavior

• 无能为力wú néng wéi lìHSK 7

  impotent (idiom); powerless; helpless

• 无能wú néngHSK 7

  incompetence; inability; incapable; powerless

• 太阳能tài yáng néngHSK 6

  solar energy