HSK 5 · Verbs

专心 zhuānxīn “to concentrate” in Chinese

Traditional 專心

What 专心 means

  1. to concentrate
  2. to focus
  3. to focus one’s attention
  4. to concentrate on (doing sth)

How to say 专心

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale专zhuān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale心xīn1st tone, high and level

专心 in a sentence

  1. 请专心做你正在做的事情。

    Qǐng zhuānxīn zuò nǐ zhèngzài zuò de shìqing.

    Please focus on what you’re doing.

    Sentence #604485 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他专心于学习。

    Tā zhuānxīn yú xuéxí.

    He focused on his studies.

    Sentence #1964261 from Tatoeba

  3. 周围太吵了,我无法专心学习。

    Zhōuwéi tài chǎo le, wǒ wúfǎ zhuānxīn xuéxí.

    It’s too noisy around here – I can’t concentrate on my study.

    Sentence #2428206 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 专心 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 专 (zhuān) drawn as one shape
专zhuānfor a particular person, occasion

专 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 心 (xīn) drawn as one shape
心xīnheart

心 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a heart. On the left of a character it is written 忄.

How to write 专心

专 4 strokes · 心 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 专心

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FAQs

专心 (zhuānxīn) means “to concentrate” or “to focus”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhuānxīn: zhuān with a 1st tone, then xīn with a 1st 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, 专心 is written 專心. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhuanxin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 专心 from the suggestions. Typing zhuanxin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
专心 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.