Emaki · all 1,500 words

出来る

できる

to be able to do, to be good at

Mnemonic

Out it comes at the moment it is called for, which is what being able to do a thing amounts to. The same 来る that is too cool to move, except that this one delivers: できる.

Built from

exit, come out
Stacked peaks, something pushing up and out into view.
come
Originally a wheat plant. The crop that comes to you at harvest.

Words sharing these kanji

to go out, to leave to take out to recollect, to recall to meet (by chance), to come across to take out, to pull out to submit to fly out, to dash out to call someone to to make a break for, to run off occurrence, incident recollections, memory to go out

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