Wǒ dìdi xiǎo de shíhou, wǒ chángcháng péi tā qù gōngyuán.
When my little brother was young, I often took him to the park.
Sentence #788992 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 公园 is built
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公gōngpublic
八eight · bā
厶private · sī
Memory aidAn old explanation: share out 八 what is private 厶, and it becomes public.
园yuánland used for growing plants
囗enclosure · wéiMeaning part
元first · yuánSound part
囗 hints at the meaning (enclosure); 元 (yuán) hints at the sound. Compare it with yuán.
How to write 公园
公 4 strokes · 园 7 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 公园 (gōngyuán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
公园 (gōngyuán) means “public park” or “park (for public recreation)”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it gōngyuán: gōng with a 1st tone, then yuán with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 公园 is written 公園. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 座 (zuò). For example, one public park is 一座公园 (yí zuò gōngyuán).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongyuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 公园 from the suggestions. Typing gongyuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
公园 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
公gōng1st tone, high and level
园yuán2nd tone, rising
