First opened Sunday, December 11, 2016

専攻

せんこう

flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

major subject, special study

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbnouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 専攻

In a sentence

専攻(せんこう)は何(なん)ですか。
What's your major?
Tatoeba #141421, translation #24685
私(わたし)は歴史(れきし)を専攻(せんこう)した。
I majored in history.
Tatoeba #152283, translation #262267

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese: Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

専攻

Taken apart

In a sentence

What Wiktionary says

What the labels mean

Also read せんこう

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