官能

Chinese

		official; government; organ of body	ability; can; may ability; can; may; capable; energy; able
trad. (官能)		官	能
simp. #(官能)		官	能

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guānnéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ ㄋㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun¹ nang⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koaⁿ-lêng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guānnéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ ㄋㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guannéng
    • Wade–Giles: kuan¹-nêng²
    • Yale: gwān-néng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guanneng
    • Palladius: гуаньнэн (guanʹnɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵⁵ nɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun¹ nang⁴
    • Yale: gūn nàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun¹ nang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun¹ neng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn⁵⁵ nɐŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koaⁿ-lêng
    • Tâi-lô: kuann-lîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kvoaleeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuã⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuã³³ liɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuã⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuã⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuã⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/

Noun

官能

1. (biology) organic functions; faculty; sense

Derived terms

• 官能交錯 / 官能交错
• 官能團 / 官能团 (guānnéngtuán)
• 神經官能症 / 神经官能症 (shénjīng guānnéng zhèng)
• 精神官能症 (jīngshén guānnéng zhèng)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (官能):

• → Japanese: 官能(かんのう) (kannō)
• → Korean: 관능(官能) (gwanneung)
• → Vietnamese: quan năng (官能)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
官	能
かん Grade: 4	のう Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かんのー [kàńnóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kã̠nːo̞ː]

Noun

官(かん)能(のう) • (kannō) ^{←くわんなう (kwannau)?}

1. faculty of the senses
2. (figuratively) pleasure obtained using the senses, (especially) sexual pleasure

   官能(かんのう)小説(しょうせつ)

   kannō shōsetsu

   sensual novel (i.e. erotic novel)