# 可能性
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kěnéngxìng
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜˇ ㄋㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ho$^2$ nang$^4$ sing$^3$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kor$^3$ neng$^2$ sing$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): khó-lêng-sèng
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ko$^2$ lêng$^5$ sên$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kěnéngxìng
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˇ ㄋㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kěnéngsìng
*** Wade–Giles: kʻo$^3$-nêng$^2$-hsing$^4$
*** Yale: kě-néng-syìng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keenengshinq
*** Palladius: кэнэнсин (kɛnɛnsin)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ nɤŋ³⁵ ɕiŋ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ho$^2$ nang$^4$ sing$^3$
*** Yale: hó nàhng sing
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ho$^2$ nang$^4$ sing$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ho$^2$ neng$^4$ xing$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɔː³⁵ nɐŋ²¹ sɪŋ³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: kor$^3$ neng$^2$ sing$^4$ [Phonetic: kor$^2$ neng$^1$ sing$^4$]
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: kô̤-néng-si̍ng
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰɒ⁴⁵³⁻¹³ nɛŋ¹³⁻⁵⁵ ɬiŋ⁴²/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: kor$^3$ neng$^2$ sing$^4$ [Phonetic: kor$^1$ neng$^1$ sing$^4$]
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰɒ³³²⁻⁵⁵ nɛŋ¹³⁻⁵⁵ ɬiŋ⁴²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khó-lêng-sèng
*** Tâi-lô: khó-lîng-sìng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: qoylengsexng
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² siɪŋ²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɪŋ¹³⁻²² siɪŋ²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ siɪŋ¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɪŋ²³⁻³³ siɪŋ²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ko$^2$ lêng$^5$ sên$^3$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khó lêng sèⁿ
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰo⁵²⁻³⁵ leŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ sẽ²¹³/

### Noun

可能性
* possibility; probability; likelihood (Classifier: 個／个)
    From: 2020 December 12, 《自白書》, the 13th test question of the preliminary of THUPC (Tsinghua University Programming Competition) 2021
    Rúguǒ shēngcún jiùshì zìyóu de qù xuǎnzé wǒ de kěnéngxìng, wèishénme zài zuì tiānshēng de kěnéngxìng zhōng, wǒ jiù wúfǎ zuòchū xuǎnzé? $^{[​sic​]}$ [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Synonyms

* 可能 (kěnéng)
* 幾率 / 几率 (jīlǜ) (chiefly mainland China)
* 或然率 (huòránlǜ)
* 概率 (gàilǜ)
* 機會率 / 机会率 (jīhuìlǜ)
* 機率 / 机率 (jīlǜ) (chiefly Taiwan, Hong Kong)

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 可(か)能(のう)性(せい) (kanōsei)
* → Korean: 가능성(可能性) (ganeungseong)

### References

* 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 40.

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 可 | 能 | 性 |
| か Grade: 5 | のう Grade: 5 | せい Grade: 5 |
| on'yomi |||

### Etymology

可能 (kanō, “possible”) +‎ 性 (-sei, “-ity, -ness”).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) かのーせー [kànóóséé] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ka̠no̞ːse̞ː]

### Noun

可(か)能(のう)性(せい) • (kanōsei)
* possibility; probability; likelihood

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 可 | 能 | 性 |

### Noun

可能性 • (ganeungseong) (hangeul 가능성)
* hanja form of 가능성 (“possibility; probability; likelihood”)