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): 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
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /kuã⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kuã³³ liɪŋ²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuã⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kuã⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴/
  - Sinological 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 [kàńnóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [kã̠nːo̞ː]

Noun

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

faculty of the senses
- 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 49, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
  そうしてその恐(おそ)ろしさは、眼(め)の前(まえ)の光景(こうけい)が官能(かんのう)を刺激(しげき)して起(おこ)る単調(たんちょう)な恐(おそ)ろしさばかりではありません。
  Sōshite sono osoroshisa wa, me no mae no kōkei ga kannō o shigeki shite okoru tanchō na osoroshisa bakari de wa arimasen.
  And that dread was not just the banal dread arising from the effect on my senses of the scene before my eyes.
(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 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“官能”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026