yuàn
pasture
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 夗 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 苑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
surname Yuan | ||
Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, now the site of Nanhaizi Park in the south of Beijing | ||
the literary world | ||
Qingyuan county in Baoding 保定[Bǎodìng], Hebei | ||
Qingyuan county in Baoding 保定[Bǎodìng], Hebei |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ | 'jwonX | yuǎn | resentment |
*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ | 'jwonX | yuǎn | park for hunting |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.1922% of movies
3322nd most common character in movies
2853rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+82D1 |
Shuowen | “苑,所以養禽獸也。从艸,夗聲。” |
Sources
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