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Kanji Detail for 庭 - "garden, yard, court"

  • Meaning

    庭 means "garden, yard, court."

    1. Garden - A cultivated outdoor space.

    2. Yard - An open area around a house.

    3. Court - A formal assembly place.

  • Words using

    • 家庭 かてい Listen home; household; family
    • 庭園 ていえん Listen garden; park
    • 中庭 なかにわ Listen courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
    • 校庭 こうてい Listen schoolyard; school playground; school grounds
    • 家庭内 かていない Listen within the family; in the home; domestic
    • 家庭教師 かていきょうし Listen (home) tutor; private tutor; private teacher
    • 庭木 にわき Listen garden tree
    • 家庭科 かていか Listen home economics
  • Tattoo check:

    • Verified meaning: garden, yard, court
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read たかにわ, にわ, にわさき)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of

    Given names (にわ)Listen

    Surnames (たかにわ)Listen (にわさき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    courtyard; garden; yard

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    courtyard; spacious hall or yard

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    main hall; front courtyard; law court

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    court; courtyard; spacious hall or yard

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The area in front of the hall steps. Such as 庭院. Government offices conducting affairs are called 府庭. Such as 庭參, 開庭. | 逕庭: Appearance of being far apart. See (Zhuangzi). Colloquially, things vastly different are called 大相逕庭, based on this.
  • Onyomi

    tip
  • Kunyomi

    tip
  • Strokes

    tip
  • Radical

    tip
  • Related Keywords

Sentences including

  • Their garden is full of very beautiful flowers all the year round.

  • He likes to work in the garden.

  • Are you happy in your house?

  • We found a poor little cat in the yard.

  • I found him working in the garden.

  • He has taken to gardening.

  • Mother transplanted the flowers to the garden.

  • There are a lot of flowers in the garden.

  • He likes taking care of the garden.

  • My room faces the garden.

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