专门

Character by character

• 专zhuān4 strokesHSK 3 traditional 專monopolize, take sole possession
• 门mén3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 門gate, door, entrance, opening

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

Words with the same characters

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

• 门ménHSK 1

  gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

• 部门bù ménHSK 3

  department; branch; section; division

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 专业zhuān yèHSK 3

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

• 门口mén kǒuHSK 1

  doorway; gate

• 出门chū ménHSK 2

  to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married

• 专辑zhuān jíHSK 5

  album; record (music); special collection of printed or broadcast material

• 大门dà ménHSK 2

  entrance; door; gate; large and influential family

• 门票mén piàoHSK 1

  ticket (for theater, cinema etc)

• 上门shàng ménHSK 4

  to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family

• 专用zhuān yòngHSK 6

  special; dedicated

• 专利zhuān lìHSK 5

  patent; sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people; monopoly

• 热门rè ménHSK 5

  popular; hot; in vogue

• 专注zhuān zhùHSK 7

  to focus; to concentrate; to give one's full attention

• 专心zhuān xīnHSK 4

  to focus one's attention; to concentrate on (doing sth)

• 敲门qiāo ménHSK 5

  to knock on a door

• 门诊mén zhěnHSK 5

  outpatient service

• 专栏zhuān lánHSK 7

  special column

• 专题zhuān tíHSK 3

  specific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc); article, report or program etc on a specific topic

• 门槛mén kǎnHSK 7

  doorstep; sill; threshold; fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper)

• 专程zhuān chéngHSK 7

  specifically; specially (for that purpose)

• 专卖店zhuān mài diànHSK 7

  specialty store

• 专科zhuān kē

  specialized subject; branch (of medicine); specialized training school

• 专职zhuān zhíHSK 7

  special duty; assigned full time to a task