特长

HSK level

6

Traditional form

特長

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

特 tè

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 牛 Niú represents the meaning and 寺 sì represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

寺 sì

Semantic compound

牛 Niú

Positional decomposition

⿰牛寺

Number of Strokes

10

长 cháng

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a person with long hair. The simplified character 长 cháng was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 長 zhǎng .

Positional decomposition

⿻？一 yī

Number of Strokes

4

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他们 tā men 完全 wánquán 是 shì 凭 píng 体育 tǐyù 特长 tècháng 才 cái 获得 huòdé 了 le 大学 Dà xué 奖学金 jiǎng xué jīn 。

They have been given college scholarships purely on athletic ability.

See the 3 Chinese characters that make up 特长 tècháng and their own compounds.

特 tè

寺 sì

土 Tǔ , 寸 cùn

牜

长 cháng

See all 8 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 特长 tècháng in their composition.

特 tè

长 cháng

张 Zhāng

涨 zhǎng

帐 zhàng , 账 zhàng , 胀 zhàng , 怅 chàng , 伥 chāng , 枨 chéng , 苌 cháng

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