擅长

擅长 shàncháng in a sentence

Be good at (excels - be expert in)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 3 sentences

擅长 (shàncháng) means Be good at (excels - be expert in). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他 擅长 写文章。

Tā shàncháng xiě wénzhāng.

He is good at writing.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 擅长

每个人都有自己 擅长 的事。

Měi ge rén dōu yǒu zìjǐ shàncháng de shì.

Everyone has something they are good at.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 擅长

这位画家 擅长 画肖像。

Zhè wèi huàjiā shàncháng huà xiàoxiàng.

This painter specialises in portraits.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 肖像

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How is 擅长 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 擅长 (shàncháng, "Be good at (excels - be expert in)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 擅长 an HSK word?

Yes — 擅长 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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