苑
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(literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park; (literary) center (of arts, literature etc)
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艸 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 苑
- Common rank
- #3,147
- Unicode
- U+82D1
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 苑 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “grass” + 夗 sound ()
Components 艹 夗
Words with 苑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 北京南苑机场 | Beijing Nanyuan Airport, military air base and secondary civil airport of Beijing | |
| 文苑英华 | Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature, Song dynasty collection of poetry, odes, song… | |
| 清苑区 | Qingyuan, a district of Baoding City 保定市[Bao3 ding4 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 文苑 | the literary world | |
| 南苑 | Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dyna… | |
| 北苑 | Beiyuan neighborhood of Beijing | |
| 清苑 | see 清苑區|清苑区[Qing1 yuan4 Qu1] | |
| 鹿苑寺 | Rokuonji in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan; the formal name of Kinkakuji or Golden pavilion 金閣寺… | |
| 阆苑 | Langyuan paradise, home of the immortals in verse and legends |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夗 — compare how they read.