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苑

yuàn

Character

What 苑 means

1. literaryenclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park
2. literarycenter (of arts, literature etc)

Other readings

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

• Yuànsurname Yuan

Words containing 苑

• 文苑wén yuànthe literary world
• 北苑Běi yuànBeiyuan neighborhood of Beijing
• 南苑Nán yuànNanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing…
• 清苑区Qīng yuàn QūQingyuan, a district of Baoding City 保定市
• 鹿苑寺Lù yuàn sìRokuonji in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan; the formal name of Kinkakuji or Golden pavilion 金阁寺
• 文苑英华Wén yuàn Yīng huáFinest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature, Song dynasty collection of poetry, odes…
• 北京南苑机场Běi jīng Nán yuàn Jī chǎngBeijing Nanyuan Airport, military air base and secondary civil airport of Beijing
• 阆苑Làng yuànLangyuan paradise, home of the immortals in verse and legends
• 清苑Qīng yuànsee 清苑区

Characters built on 夗

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

• 怨yuànto blame; (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge
• 鸳yuānmandarin duck
• 眢yuāninflamed eyelids; parched

Characters that look like 苑

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

• 范fànpattern; model; example
• 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药
• 契qìto carve; carved words; to agree
• 屄bīcunt (vulgar)
• 荫yīn(bound form) shade (of a tree)
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up

Sounds the same

Read yuàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 院courtyard; institution
• 愿honest and prudent; variant of 愿
• 怨to blame; (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge
• 远to distance oneself from (classical)
• 瑗large jade ring
• 媛(bound form) beautiful woman (in practice, often pronounced yuán); Taiwan pr. yuán
• 掾official
• 夗to turn over when asleep