可能 (kě néng): meaning and stroke order
可能 (kě néng) means might (happen), possible, probable, possibility, probability, maybe, perhaps, 个.
可能
- Simplified
- 可能
- Traditional
- 可能 (same form)
- Pinyin
- kě néng
Audio preview uses your device’s Chinese voice. It is not a recording.
Stroke order of 可能
可
- kě (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit
- kè used in 可汗[ke4 han2]
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
能
- Néng surname Neng
- néng can; to be able to
- 10 strokes
Stroke by stroke
Practise the whole word
Write each character in its box. A hint appears after a few wrong strokes.
Meaning of 可能
-
kě néng
- might (happen)
- possible
- probable
- possibility
- probability
- maybe
- perhaps
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Radicals of the characters
- 可
- Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 strokes · built from 丁 and 口
- 能
- Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 10 strokes · 䏍 on the left, 𫧇 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
可能 in our stories
Preview version — Chinese review in progress.
-
天气预报说下午可能有雨,可是早上天很晴,他们就没带伞。
tiānqì yùbào shuō xiàwǔ kěnéng yǒu yǔ kěshì zǎoshang tiān hěn qíng tāmen jiù méi dài sǎn
The forecast said it might rain in the afternoon, but the morning was clear, so they didn't take umbrellas.
From the story No umbrella HSK 3
-
会议结束时,经理笑着说:“三十页的材料我可能记不住,这三个圈我记住了。”
huìyì jiéshù shí jīnglǐ xiào zhe shuō sānshí yè de cáiliào wǒ kěnéng jì bú zhù zhè sān gè quān wǒ jì zhù le
At the end of the meeting the manager smiled: "I probably wouldn't remember thirty pages, but I remember those three circles."
From the story Three circles HSK 4
-
冯宁说:“一个电钻一辈子可能只用十几分钟,每家都买一个,太浪费了。”
Féng Níng shuō yí gè diànzuàn yíbèizi kěnéng zhǐ yòng shíjǐ fēnzhōng měi jiā dōu mǎi yí gè tài làngfèi le
Feng Ning said, "A drill might be used for a quarter of an hour in its whole life. Every family buying one is such a waste."
From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5
Stories using 可能
- No umbrella HSK 3
- Three circles HSK 4
- Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5
- Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5
- Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).