HSK 5 · Adjectives

圆 yuán “circle” in Chinese

Traditional 圓

What 圆 means

  1. circle
  2. round
  3. circular
  4. spherical
  5. (of the moon) full
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • unit of Chinese currency (yuan)

How to say 圆

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale圆yuán2nd tone, rising

圆 in a sentence

  1. 我们的数学老师在黑板上画了一个圆。

    Wǒmen de shùxué lǎoshī zài hēibǎn shàng huà le yí ge yuán.

    Our maths teacher drew a circle on the blackboard.

    Sentence #1706518 from Tatoeba

  2. 苹果是圆的。

    Píngguǒ shì yuán de.

    Apples are round.

    Sentence #13166879 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她有张圆脸。

    Tā yǒu zhāng yuán liǎn.

    She has a round face.

    Sentence #336434 from Tatoeba

How 圆 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 圆 (yuán) with each of its parts in a different colour
圆yuáncircle
  • 囗enclosure · wéiMeaning part
  • 员employee · yuánSound part

囗 hints at the meaning (enclosure); 员 (yuán) hints at the sound. Compare it with yuán.

How to write 圆

圆 10 strokes

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

Words related to 圆

Words with 圆

团圆tuányuán · to be reunited (as a family)方圆fāngyuán · surrounding area圆满yuánmǎn · satisfactory椭圆tuǒyuán · oval

More words: Adjectives

拥挤yōngjǐ · crowded优美yōuměi · graceful悠久yōujiǔ · long-standing有利yǒulì · advantageous糟糕zāogāo · too bad窄zhǎi · narrow整齐zhěngqí · orderly真实zhēnshí · true

FAQs

圆 (yuán) means “circle” or “round”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yuán: 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, 圆 is written 圓. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 圆 from the suggestions. Typing yuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
圆 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.