院子
yuàn zi 4–5
courtyard; garden; yard; patio; (old) servant
- Characters
- 2
- 院 · 子
- Syllables
- 2
- yuàn zi
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 6,479
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 院yuàn9 strokesHSK 1courtyard, yard, court; school
- 子zǐ3 strokesHSK 1offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他在院子里等我。
Tā zài yuàn zi lǐ děng wǒ
He is waiting for me in the yard.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 院子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 孩子hái ziHSK 1
child
- 医院yī yuànHSK 1
hospital
- 子zǐHSK 1
son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub-
- 儿子ér ziHSK 1
son
- 房子fáng ziHSK 1
house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room
- 样子yàng ziHSK 2
appearance; manner; pattern; model
- 妻子qī zǐHSK 4
wife and children
- 日子rì ziHSK 2
day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- 电子diàn zǐ
electronic; electron (particle physics)
- 女子nǚ zǐHSK 3
woman; female
- 一辈子yī bèi ziHSK 5
(for) a lifetime
- 学院xué yuànHSK 1
college; educational institute; school; faculty
- 男子nán zǐHSK 3
a man; a male
- 法院fǎ yuànHSK 4
court of law; court
- 院yuànHSK 2
courtyard; institution
- 肚子dù ziHSK 4
belly; abdomen; stomach
- 脑子nǎo ziHSK 5
brains; mind
- 鼻子bí ziHSK 5
nose
- 帽子mào ziHSK 4
hat; cap; (fig.) label; bad name
- 脖子bó ziHSK 7
neck
- 王子wáng zǐHSK 6
prince; son of a king
- 桌子zhuō ziHSK 1
table; desk
- 裤子kù ziHSK 3
trousers; pants
- 子弹zǐ dànHSK 5
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