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文科

wénkē

liberal arts

A student reads a thick book among stacks of books
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Characters in this word

文 wén

Strokes
4
Radical
文 — culture, literature, writing
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 文

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

Example phrases

  • 他高中选择了文科,后来读了法律。 Tā gāozhōng xuǎnzé le wénkē, hòulái dú le fǎlǜ. He chose liberal arts in senior secondary school and later studied law.
  • 文科的学生通常需要读很多书、写很多文章。 Wénkē de xuésheng tōngcháng xūyào dú hěn duō shū, xiě hěn duō wénzhāng. Liberal arts students usually need to read a lot of books and write a lot of essays.
  • 我姐姐学文科,她最喜欢历史和语文。 Wǒ jiějie xué wénkē, tā zuì xǐhuan lìshǐ hé yǔwén. My older sister studies liberal arts, and she likes history and Chinese best.

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