WordTaiwan frequency #16,540
難能可貴
ㄋㄢˊ ㄋㄥˊ ㄎㄜˇ ㄍㄨㄟˋ
“hard to achieve and therefore especially praiseworthy; commendable for its rarity”
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難
ㄋㄢˊ
difficult; hard to do; problem; disaster; calamity; to scold; to blame
能
ㄋㄥˊ
to be able to; capability; can; energy; to have the strength or ability to do something; a surname
可
ㄎㄜˇ
Able to; can; may; to permit; to approve; suitable; worth; but; however; certainly; very.
貴
ㄍㄨㄟˋ
Expensive; precious; noble; of high rank; an honorific prefix meaning 'your'; also a short name for Guizhou province.
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Words sharing these characters
Vocabulary built from the same characters — most common first
- 可以ㄎㄜˇ ㄧˇcan; may; to be able to; to be possible; not bad; pretty good
- 可能ㄎㄜˇ ㄋㄥˊpossible; might happen; maybe; perhaps; possibility; probability.
- 不能ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄥˊcannot; must not; should not; unable to; less capable; inferior ability
- 能夠ㄋㄥˊ ㄍㄡˋto be able to; to be capable of; can; may.
- 可是ㄎㄜˇ ㄕˋbut; however; yet; indeed; could it be that; just happens to be
- 能力ㄋㄥˊ ㄌㄧˋcapability; ability; competence; legal capacity to exercise rights or fulfill obligations; latent potential that can be developed through learning or stimulation.
- 功能ㄍㄨㄥ ㄋㄥˊfunction; capability; the designed purpose or role of something; what a device or system can do.
- 不可ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇcannot; must not; should not; impossible; not allowed.
- 困難ㄎㄨㄣˋ ㄋㄢˊdifficult; hard to do or deal with; a difficult situation; hardship; straitened circumstances
- 不可能ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄋㄥˊimpossible; not possible; cannot happen or be done.
- 難以ㄋㄢˊ ㄧˇhard to; difficult to; not easy to (predict, imagine, achieve, etc).
- 能量ㄋㄥˊ ㄌㄧㄤˋenergy; the capacity of an object or force field to do work; capability or potential