Illustration: On a kitchen counter, an adult lifts the lid of a rice cooker to reveal its fitted steaming basket holding freshly cooked vegetables above the rice. Steam curls around the basket as the adult raises it by its handles, exposing the separate rice pot beneath.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

機き能のう

kinou

function, feature

Example sentences

こんな余計よけいな機能きのうなんでつけたんだろう。
What did they add this needless function for?
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ブレーキの機能きのうは車くるまを止とめることだ。
The function of the brake is to stop the car.
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彼かれらは脳のうの機能きのうについて研究けんきゅうしている。
They study about the function of the brain.
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Kanji in 機能

機loom; mechanismOnキKunはた
能ability; talentOnノウKunよく・あたう

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