HSK 5 · Education

本科 běnkē “undergraduate course” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 本科 means

  1. undergraduate course
  2. undergraduate (attributive)

How to say 本科

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale本běn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale科kē1st tone, high and level

本科 in a sentence

  1. 我本科读的是经济。

    Wǒ běnkē dú de shì jīngjì.

    I studied economics as an undergraduate.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 她本科毕业以后去国外读了研究生。

    Tā běnkē bìyè yǐhòu qù guówài dú le yánjiūshēng.

    After finishing her undergraduate degree, she went abroad for postgraduate study.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 本科 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 本 (běn) with each of its parts in a different colour
本běnroot; stem
  • 木tree · mù
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA tree 木 with a mark 一 on its roots: root, origin.

The character 科 (kē) with each of its parts in a different colour
科kēbranch of study
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 斗dipper · dǒu

How to write 本科

本 5 strokes · 科 9 strokes

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本科 (běnkē) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 本科 (běnkē). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 本科

Words with 本

本běn · measure word for books本子běnzi · book课本kèběn · textbook笔记本bǐjìběn · notebook本来běnlái · original根本gēnběn · (not) at all本领běnlǐng · skill本质běnzhì · essence基本jīběn · basic本钱běnqián · capital

Words with 科

科学kēxué · science内科nèikē · internal medicine科目kēmù · (school) subject

More words: Education & Learning

标点biāodiǎn · punctuation测验cèyàn · test常识chángshí · common sense成语chéngyǔ · idiom专题zhuāntí · special topic注释zhùshì · annotation钻研zuānyán · to study intensively作弊zuòbì · to cheat (in an exam)

FAQs

本科 (běnkē) means “undergraduate course” or “undergraduate (attributive)”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it běnkē: běn with a 3rd tone, then kē with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 本科 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type benke with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 本科 from the suggestions. Typing benke into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
本科 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.