本能 běnnéng▶ instinto

Stroke order

本能 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 本 — 5 strokes
• 能 — 10 strokes

Related words

• 剧本Guion; escritura
• 性能actuación
• 成本costo
• 智能Inteligencia
• 本事Habilidad
• 本人uno mismo

本能 is pronounced běnnéng and means “instinto”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 本能 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.