幼稚園

See also: 幼稚园

Chinese

		very young; childish; naive very young; childish; naive; puerile; infantile	garden
trad. (幼稚園)		幼稚	園
simp. (幼稚园)		幼稚	园

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 幼稚園

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

Synonyms

• (mainland China) 幼兒園／幼儿园 (yòu'éryuán)
• (Malaysia Min Nan) 幼稚班

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
幼	稚	園
よう Grade: 6	ち Grade: S	えん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 幼稚 (yōchi, “infantile”) +‎ 園 (en, “garden”). 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.

Noun

幼(よう)稚(ち)園(えん) • (yōchien) ^{←えうちゑん (eutiwen)?}

1. a kindergarten; a nursery school

Related terms

• 保育園(ほいくえん) (hoikuen)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja in this term
幼	稚	園

Noun

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

1. Hanja form^? of 유치원 (“kindergarten”).

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
幼	稚	園

Noun

幼稚園

1. chữ Hán form of ấu trĩ viên (“kindergarten”).