袁 (Yuán) · surname Yuan

Meanings

1 surname Yuan

Characters

袁

yuán

surname Yuan

Examples

HSK 3

袁先生是我们的新同事。

Yuán xiānsheng shì wǒmen de xīn tóngshì.

Mr. Yuan is our new colleague.

HSK 7-9

袁隆平被誉为杂交水稻之父。

Yuán Lóngpíng bèi yùwéi zájiāo shuǐdào zhīfù.

Yuan Longping is honored as the father of hybrid rice.

Tips

usage

袁 is almost exclusively a surname today. Its ancient meaning of "a long, flowing robe" has fallen out of use.

Components

radical

衣 yī

clothes; garment

The garment 衣 wraps around the outside; its strokes are split before and after the inner element, reflecting the original picture of a long robe.

semantic

口 kǒu

mouth; opening

The 口 sits enclosed in the middle, in the original image the collar opening of the robe around a person.

In Pop Culture

袁隆平 Yuán Lóngpíng

Yuan Longping

Chinese agronomist (1930-2021) who developed the first hybrid rice strains, credited with helping feed hundreds of millions and widely revered in China.

Stroke Order

袁 Yuán

Related Words

袁大头 Yuán Dàtóu

Yuan Shikai dollar, the silver dollar minted from 1914 with Yuan Shikai's portrait

袁宏 Yuán Hóng

Yuan Hong (328–376), Eastern Jin historian and writer, author of the Annals of the Later Han

袁庚 Yuán Gēng

Yuan Geng (1917–2016), China Merchants official who set up the Shekou Industrial Zone in Shenzhen in 1979

袁绍 Yuán Shào

Yuan Shao (d. 202), warlord of the late Eastern Han, the strongest power in the north until Cao Cao defeated him at Guandu

为袁绍檄豫州 Wèi Yuán Shào xí Yùzhōu

Proclamation to Yuzhou on Behalf of Yuan Shao, Chen Lin's call to arms of 200 denouncing Cao Cao

袁隆平 Yuán Lóngpíng

Yuan Longping, Chinese agronomist known as the 'Father of Hybrid Rice' for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s

袁世凯 Yuán Shìkǎi

Yuan Shikai, senior general of the late Qing, first formal President of the Republic of China, briefly self-proclaimed Emperor in 1915–1916

朴 piáo #5,567

Park; Pak (common Korean surname) / Piao (Chinese surname)

元 yuán HSK 1 #1,434

yuan (basic unit of Chinese currency) / first; original

毛 máo HSK 3 #1,372

hair; feather; fur / dime (1/10 of a yuan) / measure word for tenths of a yuan