yuán
garden
Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 袁 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 園
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
park (for public recreation) | ||
garden | ||
land used for growing plants | ||
campus | ||
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 | |
Unicode | U+5712 |
Shuowen | “園,所以樹果也。从囗,袁聲。” |
Sources
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