Word Meaning 敵わない
かなわない
kanawanai
敵わない is read as かなわない (kanawanai) and means unable to do.
Meaning
English
- unable to do
- cannot do
- impossible
- no match for
- cannot compete with
- not in the same league as
- powerless against
- cannot stand
Reading
Kana
かなわない
Romaji
kanawanai
Writing Variants
- 適わない かなわない kanawanai
Stroke Sequence
4 Characters • 23 Total StrokesStudy Signals and Categories
Related Vocabulary
Max. 12Example Sentences
1日本でのツイッター人気の理由の一つは日本語という言語の特性にある。表意文字を使う日本語は、中国語には敵わないものの、他の多くの言語に比べて140字に多くの内容を盛り込むことができる。ちなみにこの例文の日本語版はちょうど140字で書かれているのだが、他の言語では何字になるだろうか？
One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version of this sentence is written with exactly 140 characters. How many characters does it take in other languages?