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garden · park · orchard
Japanese園 · その
Chinese园 · 花园
park
🇰🇷
Korean
won
🇯🇵
On'yomi
en
エン
Kun'yomi
sono
その
🇨🇳
Pinyin
yuán

It's made of..

Several parts combine into one character.

3 components
enclosing
robe
enclosing

The stroke order..

13 strokes · 9.0s
This character..

園 is a phono-semantic character: 囗 (an enclosure / fence) for meaning and 袁 (a long robe) for sound. Land for growing fruit and vegetables ringed by a fence (囗) — a garden, yard, or park. Like 圖 (map) seen earlier, it packs content inside the 囗 (large enclosure) radical.

The simplified form is 园, with the inner 袁 reduced to 元 — the form splits by mode.

Korean hanja-sound "won": 公園 (gongwon, park), 庭園 (jeongwon, garden), 樂園 (nagwon, paradise), 動物園 (dongmurwon, zoo), 幼稚園 (yuchiwon, kindergarten), 園藝 (wonye, gardening). It is the character in 幼稚園 (kindergarten), where children go.

Mandarin: yuán, 2nd tone. 公园 (gōngyuán, park), 花园 (huāyuán, flower garden), 动物园 (dòngwùyuán, zoo), 幼儿园 (yòu'éryuán, kindergarten), 乐园 (lèyuán, paradise). Common in Chinese garden names like 颐和园 (the Summer Palace), 圆明园 (the Old Summer Palace).

Japanese: on-reading エン (en), kun その (sono). 公園 (kōen, park), 動物園 (dōbutsuen, zoo), 幼稚園 (yōchien, kindergarten), 庭園 (teien, garden), 花園 (hanazono, flower garden). It is the 園 of Japanese childcare facilities 保育園 (hoikuen) and 幼稚園 (yōchien).

Memory aid: land tended within a fence (囗), a robe (袁) spread out — an enclosed garden.

Where you'll meet it..

🇰🇷Korean vocabulary
  • 公園공원 · gongwonpark
  • 動物園동물원 · dongmulwonzoo
  • 幼稚園유치원 · yuchiwonkindergarten
🇯🇵Japanese vocabulary
  • 公園こうえん · kouenpark
  • 幼稚園ようちえん · youchienkindergarten
🇨🇳Chinese vocabulary
  • 公园gōngyuánpark
  • 花园huāyuángarden

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