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院子

yuàn zi 4–5

courtyard; garden; yard; patio; (old) servant

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
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.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

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.

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