ネック

neck

Also:bottleneck, neckline

What does ネック mean?

ネック is a Japanese noun meaning neck in English. It can also be translated as bottleneck, neckline depending on context. It is written as ネック in hiragana, and nekku in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N1 vocabulary.

Example sentence

技術者の不足が当社の発展の最大のネックだ。

The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.