漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
園: park, garden
Also: yard, farm
JLPT N313 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- 囗enclosure(meaning)
- 袁(sound)
囗 carries the meaning · 袁 gives the sound
13 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
エンen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 園芸えんげいhorticulture, gardening
- 園児えんじkindergarten pupil
- 公園こうえんpark [n.]
- 庭園ていえんgarden, park
- 楽園らくえんpleasure garden, paradise
- 遊園地ゆうえんちamusement park
- 動物園どうぶつえんzoo, zoological gardens
- 果樹園かじゅえんorchard
- 幼稚園ようちえんkindergarten
そのsono · kun'yomi · on its own
- 園そのgarden, park, plantation
- 花園はなぞのflower garden
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)囗 fence (meaning) + 袁 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 園 (rev. 94426793), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Enclosure (囗) + a person planting (袁) = a sheltered, walled space where life is nurtured and cultivated by human hands.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side園 park · 囗
vs遠 distant · ⻌In ChineseSimplified 园 · traditional, as in Japanese · yuán
Japan keeps the traditional form 園; mainland China simplifies it to 园.
- Simplified
- 园 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 園 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yuán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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