园園 yuán — a garden, an orchard; a plot of ground laid out for a purpose; a park
yuán (second tone, rising)
Traditional: 園
a garden, an orchard; a plot of ground laid out for a purpose; a park
7 strokesRadical 囗Frequency #397
Pinyin
- yuán (second tone, rising)
a garden, an orchard; a plot of ground laid out for a purpose; a park
Character breakdown
Ideographic description
⿴囗元The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 囗meaning partno entry yetThe enclosure: a garden is ground with a wall or a fence round it.
- 元sound partno entry yet元 yuán for the sound. The traditional 園 has 袁 yuán inside instead; simplification swapped in the shorter homophone.
Mnemonic
A wall 囗 drawn all the way round 元, which is inside for the sound. Everything the word names is ground with a boundary and a purpose: 公园 a park, 花园 a flower garden, 动物园 a zoo — the garden of animals — and 幼儿园 a kindergarten, the garden of small children. Write the enclosure’s last stroke, the bottom line, only after what it contains.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
Words containing 园
- 公园公園gōngyuán (first tone, high and level)park (public garden)
- 花园花園huā (first tone, high and level) yuán (second tone, rising)garden
- 校园校園xiào (fourth tone, falling) yuán (second tone, rising)campus
- 园園yuán (second tone, rising)land used for growing plants
- 幼儿园幼兒園yòu (fourth tone, falling) ér (second tone, rising) yuán (second tone, rising)kindergarten
- 家园家園jiā (first tone, high and level) yuán (second tone, rising)home
- 乐园樂園lè (fourth tone, falling) yuán (second tone, rising)paradise
- 动物园動物園dòng (fourth tone, falling) wù (fourth tone, falling) yuán (second tone, rising)zoo
- 庄园莊園zhuāng (first tone, high and level) yuán (second tone, rising)manor
- 果园果園guǒ (third tone, dipping) yuán (second tone, rising)orchard
- 园林園林yuán (second tone, rising) lín (second tone, rising)gardens
- 园地園地yuán (second tone, rising) dì (fourth tone, falling)garden area