四合院 in English
- courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
四
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
合
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
院
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Small seal script -
Qin bamboo slips 秦
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一条胡同跟另一条连接，四合院跟其他四合院连接形成一个街区，而街区跟其他街区连接形成整个城市。
One hutong connects with another, siheyuans connect with other siheyuans to form a block, and blocks join with other blocks to form the whole city.
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他们的四合院要小得多，设计和装饰也比较简单，胡同也比较窄。
Their siheyuans were far smaller in scale and simpler in design and decoration, and the hutongs were narrower.
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因为几乎所有的四合院有南面的门和主要楼房，所以大部分的胡同是从东到西建造的。
Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.
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在北京，胡同是由四合院的传统居所排形成。
In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuans, the traditional courtyard residences.
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这些高官和富商的大四合院常常有精美雕刻并粉刷的横梁和柱子，而且有精心修剪的花园。
The large siheyuans of these high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants often featured beautifully carved and painted roof beams and pillars and carefully landscaped gardens.