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Kanji Detail for 苑 - "garden, gathering place"

苑

  • Meaning

    苑 means "garden, gathering place." Also associated with pasture.

    1. Pasture - An enclosed area for keeping livestock.

    2. Garden - A yard; a garden with planted trees.

    3. Gathering place - Where things collect; especially scholars and artists.

    4. To accumulate - To build up; to feel stifled.

  • Words using 苑

    • 御苑 ぎょえん Listen imperial garden
    • 外苑 がいえん Listen outer garden

  • Tattoo check: 苑

    • Verified meaning: garden, gathering place
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read えん, おん, その)
    • Also carries these associations: pasture

    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 苑

    Given names 苑(えん)Listen 苑(その)Listen

    Surnames 苑(おん)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    garden; farm; park

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    pasture, park, garden; mansion

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Yuan

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    pasture, park, garden; mansion

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

    A place for raising birds and beasts. Anciently called 囿. Han called it 苑. | Any place where things gather is called 苑. Such as 文苑 (literary garden), 藝苑 (art garden). Palace names. Such as 內苑 (inner garden), 閬苑 (paradise garden). | Like 屈 (to suppress). To accumulate. (Book of Odes) "My heart is knotted." Also read like 蘊. Same meaning.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    en(エン) エン

    on(オン) オン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    sono(その) その

    u.tsu(う-つ) う-つ

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    pasture garden gathering place to accumulate park orchard grounds field meadow enclosed cultivation greenery lawn landscape

Sentences including 苑

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