HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Places

园 yuán “garden” in Chinese

Traditional 園

What 园 means

  1. garden
  2. park
  3. land used for growing plants
  4. site used for public recreation

How to say 园

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

园 in a sentence

  1. 她自己去公园了。

    Tā zìjǐ qù gōngyuán le.

    She went to the park by herself.

    Sentence #9955873 from Tatoeba

  2. 花园在房子对面。

    Huāyuán zài fángzi duìmiàn.

    The garden is across from the house.

    Sentence #827446 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 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

How 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 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 园

园 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 园

Words with 园

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

More words: Places & Getting Around

北běi · north南方nánfāng · the south花园huāyuán · garden西方xīfāng · the West行李xíngli · luggage马路mǎlù · road东方dōngfāng · the East楼梯lóutī · stairs

FAQs

园 (yuán) means “garden” or “park”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 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, 园 is written 園. 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 园 from the suggestions. Typing yuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
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.