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Specialty in Chinese

specialty · HSK 4

专业 zhuān yè

  1. 专 zhuān special
  2. 业 yè line of business

Counted with 个: 一个专业 yí gè zhuānyè

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How do you say specialty in Chinese?

Specialty in Chinese is 专业 (zhuān yè). You can also say 特长 (tè cháng), 专科 (zhuān kē).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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