官能

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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guānnéng
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢㄋㄥˊ
  - 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

(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 (Heiban – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

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

faculty of the senses
(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)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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