DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

拙政園

简拙政园 · 繁拙政園

Mandarin · pinyin Zhuō zhèng Yuán

Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu, one of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

拙: zhuō · stupid, clumsy, crude; convention
政: zhèng · government, political affairs
園: yuán · garden; park, orchard
园: yuán · garden; park, orchard

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–4–2 · Zhuo1 zheng4 Yuan2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

拙政園 · find source passages ↗ · 拙政园 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

Humble Administrator's Garden (a Chinese garden in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack