拼音
- yuán (second tone, rising)
a garden, an orchard; a plot of ground laid out for a purpose; a park
字形拆解
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.