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花huāflower
艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
化to change · huà
Memory aidA plant 艹 with 化 (huà) for the sound: a flower.
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 花园
花 7 strokes · 园 7 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 花园 (huāyuán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
花园 (huāyuán) means “garden” or “garden (for flowers, ornamental plants etc)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it huāyuán: huā 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, 花园 is written 花園. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 座 (zuò). For example, one garden is 一座花园 (yí zuò huāyuán).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huayuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 花园 from the suggestions. Typing huayuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
花园 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.
花huā1st tone, high and level
园yuán2nd tone, rising
