• 能のう

  talent, gift, function

• 能面のうめん

  noh mask

• 能楽のうがく

  noh play

• 能動のうどう

  activity

• 能力のうりょく

  ability, faculty

• 能率のうりつ

  efficiency

• 才能さいのう

  talent, ability

• 芸能げいのう

  public entertainment, performing arts

• 無能むのう

  incompetence, inefficiency, inability, incapacity

• 不能ふのう

  impossible, incapable (of doing), unable (to do)

• 性能せいのう

  ability, performance, efficiency

• 有能ゆうのう

  able, capable, competent, talented, efficient

• 知能ちのう

  intelligence, intellect, brains

• 技能ぎのう

  technical skill, ability, capacity

• 機能きのう

  function, facility, faculty, feature

• 本能ほんのう

  instinct

• 可能かのう

  possible, potential, practicable, feasible

• 堪能たんのう

  proficient, skilled, skillful, good, accomplished

• 効能こうのう

  effect, effectiveness, efficacy, virtue, benefit

• 万能ばんのう

  all-purpose, utility, universal

• 職能しょくのう

  occupational ability

• 能動的のうどうてき

  active

• 芸能人げいのうじん

  entertainer, performer, celebrity, entertainment personality

• 放射能ほうしゃのう

  radioactivity

• 不可能ふかのう

  impossible

• 可能性かのうせい

  potentiality, likelihood, possibility, chance

• 高性能こうせいのう

  high efficiency, high performance

• 設定可能せっていかのう

  configurable

• 可能にするかのうにする

  to allow, to enable, to make possible, to make feasible, to permit

• 可能性が高いかのうせいがたかい

  very likely, very probable

• 能記のうき

  signifier

• 能事のうじ

  one's work

• 能格のうかく

  ergative case

• 能吏のうり

  able official, capable official

• 能相のうそう

  the active, active voice

• 能才のうさい

  ability, able person

• 能弁のうべん

  eloquence, oratory

• 能文のうぶん

  skilled in writing

• 能書のうしょ

  excellent calligraphy, calligraphy

• 能うあたう

  to be able (to do), to be capable (of doing)

• 能所のうじょ

  subject and object, activity and passivity

• 能筆のうひつ

  skillful penmanship, skilled calligrapher

• 能管のうかん

  noh flute (transverse bamboo flute with seven holes; approx. 39 cm long)

• 能力のうりき

  low-ranking priest who does manual labour at a temple, male temple employee

• 能登のと

  Noto (former province located in the north of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture)

• 能平のっぺい

  soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

• 良能りょうのう

  natural ability

• 低能ていのう

  low intelligence, low IQ, feeble-mindedness, imbecility

• 薪能たきぎのう

  noh theater performed at night by a fire

• 権能けんのう

  authority, power, function