Yīnwèi nǐmen gōngsī de yèwù nénggòu fāhuī wǒ de tècháng.
Because your company’s business would let me make the most of my strengths.
Sentence #420986 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 特长 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.
特tèspecial
牛cow · niúMeaning part
寺court · sìSound part
牛 hints at the meaning (cow); 寺 (sì) hints at the sound. Compare it with tè.
长chánglong
长 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidSimplified from 長, drawn from a person with long hair: long (cháng), and to grow (zhǎng).
How to write 特长
特 10 strokes · 长 4 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 特长 (tècháng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
特长 (tècháng) means “strength” or “speciality”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tècháng: tè with a 4th tone, then cháng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 特长 is written 特長. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type techang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 特长 from the suggestions. Typing techang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
特长 is an HSK 6 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
特tè4th tone, falling
长cháng2nd tone, rising
