園

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See also: 园
園 U+5712, 園
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5712
← 圑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 圓 →

Translingual

Stroke order
13 strokes

Han character

園 (Kangxi radical 31, 囗+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田土口女 (WGRV), four-corner 60232, composition ⿴囗袁)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 220, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4818
  • Dae Jaweon: page 451, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 723, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5712

Chinese

trad. 園
simp. 园*
alternative forms 薗
𡈤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 園
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (袁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
薳 *ɢʷalʔ
袁 *ɢʷan
園 *ɢʷan
轅 *ɢʷan
猿 *ɢʷan
榬 *ɢʷan
溒 *ɢʷan
遠 *ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷan) : semantic 囗 (“fence”) + phonetic 袁 (OC *ɢʷan).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • hn̂g/hûiⁿ - vernacular;
  • oân - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 園
Mandarin Beijing /yan³⁵/
Harbin /yan²⁴/
Tianjin /yan⁴⁵/
Jinan /yã⁴²/
Qingdao /yã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /yan⁴²/
Xi'an /yã²⁴/
Xining /yã²⁴/
Yinchuan /yan⁵³/
Lanzhou /yɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /yan⁵¹/
Wuhan /yɛn²¹³/
Chengdu /yan³¹/
Guiyang /ian²¹/
Kunming /iɛ̃³¹/
Nanjing /yen²⁴/
Hefei /yĩ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ye¹¹/
Pingyao /ye̞¹³/
Hohhot /ye³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦyø²³/
Suzhou /ɦiø¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦyõ²¹³/
Wenzhou /jy³¹/
Hui Shexian /ue⁴⁴/
Tunxi /yɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /yẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /yẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /yɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ian¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʒen¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jyn²¹/
Nanning /yn²¹/
Hong Kong /jyn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /uan³⁵/
/hŋ̍³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /huoŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xyiŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /hŋ̍⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /zuaŋ³¹/
/hui³¹/
Rime
Character 園
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 雨元切
Baxter hjwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦʉɐn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦuan/
Li
Rong 		/ɣiuɐn/
Wang
Li 		/ɣĭwɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯wɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yuán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jyun4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 園
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hjwon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ɢʷa/
English garden

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 園
Reading # 1/1
No. 16221
Phonetic
component 		袁
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		袁
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷan/

Definitions

園

  1. garden; orchard
    蘋果園／苹果园  ―  píngguǒ yuán  ―  apple orchard
    頤和園／颐和园  ―  yíhéyuán  ―  Summer Palace
  2. park; public recreational place
  3. (Min) dry land
  4. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

園

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. field, plantation
  2. garden, park
  3. preschool (nursery, kindergarten)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
園
えん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

/wen/ → /eɴ/

From Middle Chinese 園 (MC hjwon).

Pronunciation

Noun

園(えん) • (en) ←ゑん (wen)?

  1. preschool
    1. Short for 幼稚園 (yōchien) kindergarten
    2. Short for 保育園 (hoikuen) nursery school

Affix

園(えん) • (en) ←ゑん (wen)?

  1. garden, park
Derived terms
Derived terms

Proper noun

園(えん) • (En) ←ゑん (wen)?

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
園
その
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
苑

⟨so2no2⟩ → */sənə/ → /sono/

From Old Japanese.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

園(その) • (sono) 

  1. an orchard, plantation
  2. a garden, park (especially one with trees)
    Synonyms: 園生 (sonou), 庭園 (teien), 庭 (niwa)
  3. a place, location
    Synonym: 場所 (basho)
Derived terms

Proper noun

園(その) • (Sono) 

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 園 (MC hjwon). Recorded as Middle Korean 원 (wen) (Yale: wen) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

園 (eumhun 동산 원 (dongsan won))

  1. Hanja form? of 원 (“garden; orchard”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

園: Hán Nôm readings: viên, vườn

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