The subject is out of his sphere.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
所能
according to one's capabilities
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
according to one's capabilities
02
what sb is capable of
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 所能 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 所能 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
God knows we did everything we could.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 所能.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 所能.
Directly before
- 我们所能2
- 他所能1
- 随其所能1
Directly after
- 所能做2
- 所能接受1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 所能
What does 所能 mean in Chinese?
所能 (suǒnéng) means according to one's capabilities.
How do you pronounce 所能?
所能 is pronounced suǒnéng.
Is 所能 an HSK word?
所能 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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