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科目

kēmù

subject, course

A student at a desk beside a stack of three textbooks
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Characters in this word

科 kē

Strokes
9
Radical
禾 — cereal, grain, rice
Made of
禾 cereal, grain, rice 斗 to struggle, to fight, to contend
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

目 mù

Strokes
5
Radical
目 — eye
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 目

Example phrases

  • 这学期他选了三门科目,其中最难的是统计学。 Zhè xuéqī tā xuǎn le sān mén kēmù, qízhōng zuì nán de shì tǒngjìxué. This term he chose three subjects, the hardest of which is statistics.
  • 他最喜欢的科目是历史,最不喜欢的是数学。 Tā zuì xǐhuan de kēmù shì lìshǐ, zuì bù xǐhuan de shì shùxué. His favourite subject is history and his least favourite is maths.
  • 毕业前,每个科目的成绩都必须及格。 Bìyè qián, měi ge kēmù de chéngjì dōu bìxū jígé. Before graduating, you must pass every subject.

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