yuàn
noun #12,395

Meanings

  1. 1 enclosed garden; park
  2. 2 imperial garden
  3. 3 center (of arts or literature)

Examples

Wén yuàn zhōng jùjí le xǔduō wénrén.
Many literati gathered in the literary circle.
Zhège xiǎoqū jiào Cuìzhú Yuàn.
This residential compound is called Cuizhu Yuan (Green Bamboo Garden).

Tips

usage
is literary and mainly appears in place names and classical expressions like 文苑 (literary world) or 艺苑 (arts circle). It also functions as a surname.

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant
Top grass radical in its 3-stroke compressed form, marking as a place full of plants — originally an imperial hunting park stocked with game and lush vegetation; today found mostly in literary names of gardens and compounds.
phonetic
yuàn
to turn over in sleep (here phonetic)
Bottom supplies the sound — yuàn stays yuàn with no shift. It acts as a pure phonetic tag; the same phonetic appears in (to resent) and (winding).

Stroke Order

yuàn