yuàn

pasture

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

夗 sound component

  Sound component

yuàn

  

to turn over when asleep

Evolution

苑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
苑 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
苑 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
苑 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
苑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yuàn

pasture, park, garden; mansion; park

 

Yuàn

surname Yuan

Most common words with 苑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Yuan

南苑

Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, now the site of Nanhaizi Park in the south of Beijing

文苑

the literary world

清苑县

Qingyuan county in Baoding 保定[Bǎo​dìng], Hebei

清苑

Qingyuan county in Baoding 保定[Bǎo​dìng], Hebei

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ

'jwonX

yuǎn

resentment

*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ

'jwonX

yuǎn

park for hunting


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.1922% of movies

3322nd most common character in movies

2853rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+82D1

Shuowen

“苑,所以養禽獸也。从艸,夗聲。”


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