幼稚園

See also: 幼稚园

Chinese

garden
trad. (幼稚園) 幼稚
simp. (幼稚园) 幼稚

Pronunciation


Note: yô-chi-én - from Japanese pronunciation.

Noun

幼稚園

  1. (Taiwan, Hong Kong or dialectal) kindergarten; nursery school

Synonyms


Japanese

Kanji in this term
よう
Grade: 6

Grade: S
えん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 幼稚 (yōchi, infantile) + (en, garden).[1][2][3] The term is apparently a calque of German Kindergarten (children's garden), as Japanese yōchien were started in 1876 based on the German model initiated by Friedrich Fröbel in 1837 and on the term Kindergarten that he coined in 1840.[2][3]

Pronunciation

Noun

幼稚園 (hiragana ようちえん, rōmaji yōchien, historical hiragana えうちゑん)

  1. a kindergarten; a nursery school

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

幼稚園 (yuchiwon, McCune-Reischauer: yuch'iwŏn, Yale: yuchiwen) (hangeul 유치원)

  1. Hanja form? of 유치원 (kindergarten).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word

Noun

幼稚園

  1. Hán tự form of ấu trĩ viên (kindergarten).
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