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才能

さいのう

talent, ability

Mnemonic

What was in you from the start crossed with what you can actually do. A sigh さい, and then the same can のう as 可能. He is full of the artistic sort: さいのう.

Worth knowing

能力 のうりょく is ability you built up. 才能 is the part you were born holding.

Built from

talent, natural ability
A shoot pushing up through the ground. What was there from the start rather than put in later.
ability
No clean parts to pull off. Take it as what a thing is able to do.

Words sharing these kanji

ability, capacity possible, potential impossible

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