宅院 (zhái yuàn) — house with a courtyard; courtyard house

Definition

Examples

• 这座宅院已经有三百年的历史了。
  Zhè zuò zhái yuàn yǐ jīng yǒu sān bǎi nián de lì shǐ le.
  This courtyard house already has a history of three hundred years.
• 他们一家住在城东的老宅院里。
  Tā men yì jiā zhù zài chéng dōng de lǎo zhái yuàn lǐ.
  Their family lives in an old courtyard house in the east of the city.
• 我们参观了那个保存完好的宅院。
  Wǒ men cān guān le nà ge bǎo cún wán hǎo de zhái yuàn.
  We visited that well-preserved courtyard house.