园子 (yuán zǐ) — (place) garden or vegetable plot; (place) traditional Chinese theater venue (e.g., 戏园子)
Definition
园子 is a casual, spoken word for a 'garden' or small vegetable plot — more everyday than the literary 花园. In old Beijing it also referred to traditional theater venues (戏园子) where operas like 京剧 were performed.
noun
(place) garden or vegetable plot(place) traditional Chinese theater venue (e.g., 戏园子)
Measure word · 个
Examples
- 园子，。Wǒ nǎi nai zài chéng wài yǒu yí gè xiǎo yuán zǐ, zhǒng le shū cài hé huā.My grandma has a small garden outside the city, where she grows vegetables and flowers.
- 园子。Yǐ qián běi jīng de yuán zǐ zǐ lǐ tiān tiān yǒu jīng jù yǎn chū.In the past, there were Beijing opera performances every day in the theaters of Beijing.
- 园子。Nà ge yuán zǐ zǐ yǐ jīng yǒu yì bǎi duō nián le.That theater is already over a hundred years old.
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