园 — land used for growing plants
land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation
- Pinyin
- yuán · Yuán
- Strokes
- 7
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- recognition only
This character has more than one reading — yuán, Yuán — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.
How to write 园: 7 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 园 in the HSK syllabus: 12
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 动物园dòngwùyuánzooHSK 3
- 公园gōngyuánparkHSK 3
- 花园huāyuángarden; park; yard with decorative plantsHSK 3
- 校园xiàoyuáncampusHSK 3
- 园yuánland used for growing plantsHSK 3
- 幼儿园yòu’éryuánkindergarten; nursery schoolHSK 5
- 家园jiāyuánhome; homelandHSK 6
- 园林yuánlíngardens; park; landscape gardenHSK 6
- 乐园lèyuánparadiseHSK 7–9
- 田园tiányuánfields; countryside; rural; bucolicHSK 7–9
- 园区yuánqūsite developed for a group of related enterprises; parkHSK 7–9
- 庄园zhuāngyuánmanor; feudal land; villa and parkHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.