本領

ほんりょう

Meanings

1. Noun characteristic quality; special character; one's real ability; one's specialty
2. one's function; one's duty
3. fief; inherited estate

Kanji

• 本 origin. Read as ホン.
• 領 territory. Read as リョウ.

Example sentences

• 悪路になると、この小型の車が本当にその本領を発揮する。
  On bad roads this little car really comes into its own.
• この作家が本領を発揮しているのは短編小説だ。
  This writer is at his best in his short stories.

Common phrases

• 本領を発揮 (ほんりょうをはっき) to display one's real ability

Words containing 本領

• 本領安堵 (ほんりょうあんど) recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)
• 日本領 (にほんりょう) Japanese territory
• 本領を発揮 (ほんりょうをはっき) to display one's real ability

And 1 more.

Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists