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专业

zhuān yè 1–4

specialty; specialized field; main field of study (at university); major; professional

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
专 · 业
Syllables
2
zhuān yè
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,146

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 专zhuān4 strokesHSK 3 traditional 專monopolize, take sole possession
  • 业yè5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 業profession, business; GB radical 111

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 你的专业是什么?

    Nǐ de zhuān yè shì shén me

    What's your major?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 专业. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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