WordTaiwan frequency #24,421
甲子園
ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄗˇ ㄩㄢˊ
“short for Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Japan; the venue of Japan's national high school baseball tournament; by extension, the tournament itself or the dream of competing in it”
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甲
ㄐㄧㄚˇ
First of the ten Heavenly Stems; armor or shell; fingernail or toenail; a numbered or lettered item in a list; a party to a contract.
子
ㄗˇ
Son; child; offspring; seed; noun suffix attached to nouns, verbs, adjectives, or classifiers; first of the twelve earthly branches; ancient Chinese compass point for north.
園
ㄩㄢˊ
A place for growing plants; a park or garden; a public recreation site; also a surname.
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Words sharing these characters
Vocabulary built from the same characters — most common first
- 孩子ㄏㄞˊ ㄗˇchild; a young person who is not yet an adult; offspring; son or daughter
- 兒子ㄦˊ ㄗˇson; male child of a parent; a boy in relation to his parents
- 公園ㄍㄨㄥ ㄩㄢˊpark; public green space for recreation; outdoor area for leisure and enjoying nature
- 男子ㄋㄢˊ ㄗˇa man; a male; (in some contexts, especially Taiwan) a son
- 桃園ㄊㄠˊ ㄩㄢˊTaoyuan, a city and county in northern Taiwan; literally 'peach garden'.
- 妻子ㄑㄧ ㄗˇwife; a married woman in relation to her husband; (archaic or literary) wife and children
- 電子ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄗˇelectronic; relating to devices or systems using circuits, semiconductors, or computers; electron (particle physics).
- 房子house; building; apartment; room; a residential structure where people live or a space used for a specific purpose
- 女子ㄋㄩˇ ㄗˇwoman; female; (dated) unmarried or virgin woman.
- 園區ㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄩindustrial or technology park; site developed for a group of related enterprises; broadly, any designated area or grounds for a specific activity or purpose.
- 樣子ㄧㄤˋ ㄗˇappearance; look; the way someone or something looks; manner; pattern; model; style; kind; sort; roughly; about (used before numbers to indicate approximation)
- 校園ㄒㄧㄠˋ ㄩㄢˊcampus; the grounds and buildings of a school; broadly, the educational environment