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Chinese symbol for “polytechnic”

专科学校
zhuān kē xué xiào
Traditional: 專科學校
specialized school; college for professional training; polytechnic

The closest CC-CEDICT match for polytechnic is 专科学校 (zhuān kē xué xiào), defined as: specialized school; college for professional training; polytechnic.

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Characters and stroke order

专 zhuān
concentrated, specialized; to monopolize
radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes
科 kē
section, department; field, branch; science
radical 115 ⽲ · 9 strokes
学 xué
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes
校 xiào
school; military field officer
radical 75 ⽊ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “polytechnic”

WordPinyinMeaning
中等技术学校 (中等技術學校)zhōng děng jì shù xué xiàotechnical middle school; polytechnic

Related words

Other words that share a character with 专科学校.

WordPinyinMeaning
专业 (專業)zhuān yèspecialty; specialized field
专家 (專家)zhuān jiāexpert; specialist
专门 (專門)zhuān ménspecialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose); specially; specifically (for a particular purpose)
专题 (專題)zhuān tíspecific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc); article, report or program etc on a specific topic
专用 (專用)zhuān yòngspecial; dedicated
专辑 (專輯)zhuān jíalbum; record (music)
科技kē jìscience and technology
科学 (科學)kē xuéscience; scientific knowledge
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild
学校 (學校)xué xiàoschool; measure word: 所 (suǒ)

See also: Japanese symbol for “polytechnic”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.