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From :   Vicki

Date : 2008-05-13 / 05:42PM

“zhuan1 ye4” is major for education right but can zhuan1 ye4 be used also as very big? “I have a major problem”

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-05-13 / 09:43PM

Hi Vicki, zhuān yè only has 2 meanings:

1. professional
2. Major

zhuān yè can never be used as “very big”, very big in Chinese is " fēi cháng dà or hěn dà"

Benny



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Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 Vicki hotmail.com 
2008-05-14 / 10:08AM

xie xie ni Benny. ni de web site is very helpful.

Vicki

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