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专门 (zhuān mén): meaning and stroke order

专门 (zhuān mén) means specialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose).

专门

Simplified
专门
Traditional
專門
Pinyin
zhuān mén

Stroke order of 专门

专

  • zhuān for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing
  • zhuān variant of 專|专[zhuan1]
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 專

Stroke by stroke

门

  • Mén surname Men
  • mén gate; door
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 門

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 专门

  1. zhuān mén Traditional 專門
    • specialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose)
    • specially; specifically (for a particular purpose)
    • (of institutions, personnel etc) designated or assigned for a specific task; special

Radicals of the characters

专
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes
门
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 3 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

专门 in our stories

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  • 他还告诉她,上个月有个大学生专门来拜他为师,说要把这门手艺拍成视频放到网上。

    tā hái gàosu tā shàng gè yuè yǒu gè dàxuéshēng zhuānmén lái bài tā wéi shī shuō yào bǎ zhè mén shǒuyì pāi chéng shìpín fàng dào wǎngshang

    He also told her that last month a university student had come specially to become his apprentice, saying he would film the craft and put it online.

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

  • 唐朝时,长安城外的泾河里住着一位龙王,专门负责这一带的下雨。

    Tángcháo shí Cháng'ān chéng wài de Jīng Hé lǐ zhù zhe yí wèi Lóngwáng zhuānmén fùzé zhè yídài de xiàyǔ

    In the Tang dynasty, in the Jing River outside Chang'an, lived a Dragon King whose sole duty was the rain in that region.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 第二年,同一场比赛的起点上,多了一个年轻的配速员。她背上的气球写着“四小时三十分”,专门陪第一次跑全程的新手。

    dì-èr nián tóng yì chǎng bǐsài de qǐdiǎn shàng duō le yí gè niánqīng de pèisùyuán tā bèi shàng de qìqiú xiě zhe sì xiǎoshí sānshí fēn zhuānmén péi dì-yī cì pǎo quánchéng de xīnshǒu

    The next year, at the start of the same race, there was one more young pacer. The balloon on her back read "four hours thirty", for beginners running their first full marathon.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 专门

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).