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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

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

Meaning of 可能

  1. 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

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  • 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

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).