Meaning & readings
courtyard, garden, yard
On’yomi テイ
Kun’yomi にわ
Nanori ば
Origin
The character 庭 combines a roof radical (广) on the left, which indicates this word relates to a building or enclosed space, with the component 廷 on the right that serves as a sound hint for the character's pronunciation. The roof radical makes sense because a courtyard or garden is typically the open outdoor area attached to or part of a house or building compound. By pairing the "roof" meaning-marker with the sound hint 廷, the character came to specifically denote the yard or garden space belonging to a residence.
Components
- 广
- 廷
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 53
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #816 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05EAD