校园

xiàoyuán · HSK 2

campus

校园 — campus

🏫 校 (school) + 园 (garden) = school garden = campus

校 means school and 园 means garden or enclosed grounds (same 园 as in 公园 park). Together they name the grounds of a school — the schoolyard or campus.

园 — enclosure 囗 + 元 (yuán, phonetic)
园 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The outer 囗 (enclosure) shows a walled or fenced-off area, while 元 inside gives the sound 'yuán'. It originally meant a fenced garden or orchard, and still means garden, park, or cultivated grounds today.

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