HSK 5 · Education

幼儿园 yòu'éryuán “kindergarten” in Chinese

Traditional 幼兒園

What 幼儿园 means

  1. kindergarten
  2. nursery school

How to say 幼儿园

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale幼yòu4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale儿ér2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale园yuán2nd tone, rising

幼儿园 in a sentence

  1. 我们上幼儿园。

    Wǒmen shàng yòu'éryuán.

    We go to kindergarten.

    Sentence #12059094 from Tatoeba

  2. 她是幼儿园里的保育员。

    Tā shì yòu'éryuán lǐ de bǎoyùyuán.

    She’s a childcare worker at a kindergarten.

    Sentence #1567747 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 幼儿园的老师告诉小朋友们要互敬互爱。

    Yòu'éryuán de lǎoshī gàosu xiǎopéngyǒumen yào hù jìng hù ài.

    The kindergarten teacher told the children to respect and care for each other.

    Sentence #1567749 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 幼儿园 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 幼 (yòu) with each of its parts in a different colour
幼yòuyoung
  • 幺tiny · yāo
  • 力strength · lì
The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿érchild
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

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 幼儿园

幼 5 strokes · 儿 2 strokes · 园 7 strokes

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幼儿园 (yòu'éryuán) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
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Words related to 幼儿园

Words with 幼

幼稚yòuzhì · childish

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here那儿nàr · there一点儿yìdiǎnr · a little面条儿miàntiáor · noodles好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly男孩儿nánháir · boy

Words with 园

园yuán · garden公园gōngyuán · public park花园huāyuán · garden校园xiàoyuán · campus动物园dòngwùyuán · zoo园林yuánlín · gardens

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FAQs

幼儿园 (yòu’éryuán) means “kindergarten” or “nursery school”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yòu’éryuán: yòu with a 4th tone, then ér with a 2nd 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, 幼儿园 is written 幼兒園. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type youeryuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 幼儿园 from the suggestions. Typing youeryuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
幼儿园 is an HSK 5 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.