~園

~えん · ~en · JLPT N2 · noun

garden

~園 — garden

🌷🌳 ~en sounds like enclosed: the 囗 frame is the fence around a garden

The outer box 囗 means enclosure, and the inner part 袁 gives the sound en. As a suffix it names fenced grounds built for a purpose: 公園 kōen (park), 動物園 dōbutsuen (zoo), 幼稚園 yōchien (kindergarten).

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