HSK 3.0 Level 3 · School

校园 xiàoyuán “campus” in Chinese

Traditional 校園

What 校园 means

  1. campus
  2. school grounds

How to say 校园

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale校xiào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale园yuán2nd tone, rising

校园 in a sentence

  1. 她带我参观了校园。

    Tā dài wǒ cānguān le xiàoyuán.

    She showed me around the campus.

    Sentence #346144 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 我昨天在校园里遇到了她。

    Wǒ zuótiān zài xiàoyuán lǐ yùdào le tā.

    I ran into her on campus yesterday.

    Sentence #846091 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 他很享受他的校园生活。

    Tā hěn xiǎngshòu tā de xiàoyuán shēnghuó.

    He’s really enjoying campus life.

    Sentence #1452383 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 校园 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 校 (xiào) with each of its parts in a different colour
校xiàoschool; college
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 交to connect · jiāoSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 交 (jiāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiào.

The character 园 (yuán) with each of its parts in a different colour
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 校园

校 10 strokes · 园 7 strokes

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校园 (xiàoyuán) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 校园 (xiàoyuán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 校园

Words with 校

学校xuéxiào · school校长xiàozhǎng · principal of school

Words with 园

园yuán · garden公园gōngyuán · public park花园huāyuán · garden动物园dòngwùyuán · zoo幼儿园yòu'éryuán · kindergarten园林yuánlín · gardens

More words: School & Work

本子běnzi · book词cí · word高中gāozhōng · senior high school开学kāixué · to start a new school term开会kāihuì · to have a meeting难题nántí · difficult problem放假fàngjià · to have a holiday初中chūzhōng · junior high school

FAQs

校园 (xiàoyuán) means “campus” or “school grounds”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it xiàoyuán: xiào with a 4th 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, 校园 is written 校園. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiaoyuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 校园 from the suggestions. Typing xiaoyuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
校园 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.