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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:

CharacterPinyinMeaning
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

WordPinyinMeaning
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