官能

guānnéng
noun #37,029

Meanings

  1. 1 sensory faculty
  2. 2 physical sense (sight, hearing, smell, etc.)
  3. 3 organic function

Examples

Xiùjué shì réntǐ zhòngyào de guānnéng zhī yī.
Smell is one of the important senses of the human body.
Zhòngfēng kěnéng yǐngxiǎng duō zhǒng guānnéng.
A stroke can affect multiple physical faculties.

Tips

usage
More technical / clinical than 感觉 (gǎnjué, feeling). 官能 emphasizes the sense ORGAN's capacity — sight, hearing, etc. — while 感觉 is the subjective sensation.
memory
here is not 'official' but the older sense 'organ of the body' (compare 五官 wǔguān, the five facial features). 官能 = organ-capacity = sense.

Stroke Order

guān
néng