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园

yuán

HSK 3 Character Traditional 園

What 园 means

1. land used for growing plants
2. site used for public recreation
3. abbr. for a place ending in 园, such as a botanical garden 植物园, kindergarten 幼儿园 etc

Other readings

园 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Yuánsurname Yuan

Example sentences

• 我去公园。
  I'm going to the park.
• 他喜欢园艺。
  Tā xǐhuan yuányì.
  He likes to work in the garden.
• 你做园艺吗？
  Do you garden?
• 我没去过动物园
  I didn't go to the zoo.
• 我想去动物园。
  I'd like to go to the zoo.
• 花园里没有人。
  There was nobody in the garden.

Words starting with 园

• 园林yuán língardens; park; landscape garden
• 园地yuán dìgarden area
• 园区yuán qūsite developed for a group of related enterprises; (industrial or technology) park
• 园艺yuán yìgardening; horticultural
• 园丁yuán dīnggardener
• 园长yuán zhǎngperson in charge of a place that ends in 园
• 园游会yuán yóu huì(Taiwan) garden party; fete (held in a garden or park); carnival; fair
• 园圃yuán pǔgarden plot
• 园囿yuán yòupark

Words containing 园

• 花园huā yuángarden (for flowers, ornamental plants etc); (landscaped) park…
• 公园gōng yuánpark (for public recreation)
• 幼儿园yòu ér yuánkindergarten; nursery school
• 校园xiào yuáncampus
• 家园jiā yuánhome; homeland
• 乐园lè yuánparadise
• 动物园dòng wù yuánzoo
• 颐和园Yí hé yuánSummer Palace in Beijing
• 庄园zhuāng yuánmanor; feudal land; villa and park
• 圆明园Yuán míng yuánYuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
• 田园tián yuánfields; countryside; rural
• 植物园zhí wù yuánbotanical garden; arboretum
• 果园guǒ yuánorchard
• 桃园Táo yuánTaoyuan city and county in Taiwan
• 大观园Dà guān yuánProspect Garden; Grand View Garden, a garden in Dream of the Red Chamber
• 菜园cài yuánvegetable garden
• 梨园lí yuánthe world of Chinese opera
• 学园xué yuánacademy; campus
• 中山公园Zhōng shān Gōng yuánZhongshan Park, the name of numerous parks in China, honoring Sun Yat-sen 孙中山
• 幼稚园yòu zhì yuánkindergarten (Tw)
• 游乐园yóu lè yuánamusement park
• 游园yóu yuánto visit a park or garden
• 伊甸园Yī diàn yuánGarden of Eden
• 故园gù yuánone's hometown

Characters built on 元

These share the phonetic component 元 (yuán), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 远yuǎnfar; distant; remote
• 阮ruǎnruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
• 沅YuánYuan river in Guizhou and Hunan
• 朊ruǎnprotein
• 鼋yuánsea turtle
• 蚖yuánProtura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod); variant of 螈, salamander; newt

Characters that look like 园

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 国guócountry; nation; state; (bound form) national
• 因yīncause; reason; because
• 团tuánround; lump; ball
• 困kùnto trap; to surround; hard-pressed
• 固gùhard; strong; solid
• 闹nàonoisy; cacophonous; to make noise

Sounds the same

Read yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 元currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…
• 员(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity; (bound form) member…
• 原former; original; primary
• 圆circle; round; circular
• 源root; source; origin
• 援to help; to assist; to aid
• 缘cause; reason; karma
• 辕shaft of a cart or carriage; (bound form) entrance gate of a military camp or yamen…
• 袁long robe (old)
• 猿ape
• 媛used in 婵媛
• 垣wall