能否
néng​fǒu HSK6

whether or not

能否 néng​fǒu
whether or not auxiliaryverb
whether one is able to or not; can or cannot; is it possible

能否请你离开？

néng​fǒu qǐng nǐ lí kāi?

Could you please leave?

科学能否拯救世界？

kē​xué néng​fǒu zhěng​jiù shì​jiè?

Can science save the world?

competence
(literary) whether one is capable or competent; ability or lack thereof

Frequency
Movie subtitles
35.4 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
47.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6

Cross-References

Same as

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)