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園

yuán

garden

Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 袁 represents the sound.

Components
囗 meaning component

囗  Meaning component

wéi

  

surround

袁 sound component

袁  Sound component

yuán

  

robe

Evolution

園 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
園 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
園 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

园 (園) 

yuán

garden; park, orchard; land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc

园 (園) 

Yuán

surname Yuan

Most common words with 園
Freq.
Word
Meaning

公园

park (for public recreation)

花园

garden

园

land used for growing plants

校园

campus

幼儿园

kindergarten

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.ɢʷa[n]

hjwon

yuán

garden


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 37.4019% of movies

918th most common character in movies

988th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

园

Unicode

U+5712

Shuowen

“園，所以樹果也。从囗，袁聲。”


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