苑
(literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park; (literary) center (of arts, literature etc)
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,147 U+82D1
How 苑 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 (semantic, “grass”) + 夗 (phonetic, yuàn)
components: 艹 夗
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 夗
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 夗 (yuàn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夗 sound component | yuàn | to turn over when asleep |
| 怨 | yuàn | to blame, to complain, to hate; enmity, resentment |
| 宛 | wǎn | to seem; as if; crooked |
| 鸳 | yuān | male mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) |
| 眢 | yuān | dull, parched, or inflamed eyes |
Words containing 苑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 北京南苑机场 | Běi jīng Nán yuàn Jī chǎng | Beijing Nanyuan Airport, military air base and secondary civil airport of Beijing |
| 文苑英华 | Wén yuàn Yīng huá | Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature, Song dynasty collection of poetry, odes, song… |
| 清苑区 | Qīng yuàn Qū | Qingyuan, a district of Baoding City 保定市[Bao3 ding4 Shi4], Hebei |
| 文苑 | wén yuàn | the literary world |
| 南苑 | Nán yuàn | Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dyna… |
| 北苑 | Běi yuàn | Beiyuan neighborhood of Beijing |
| 清苑 | Qīng yuàn | see 清苑區|清苑区[Qing1 yuan4 Qu1] |
| 鹿苑寺 | Lù yuàn sì | Rokuonji in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan; the formal name of Kinkakuji or Golden pavilion 金閣寺… |
| 阆苑 | Làng yuàn | Langyuan paradise, home of the immortals in verse and legends |