?	Yuán	Park
??	Shìjì	Century
??	Jiànzhú	Architecture
??	Rénmín	People
??	Gu?ngch?ng	(outdoor/public) Square
??	G?l?o	Ancient
??	Yúyún	Yu Gardens

1. ? : means garden so the expression Yu Yuan Gardens is redundant. In English it is reffered to as Yu Garden or Yu Yuan Garden. This happens a lot in translations. The *Gobi Desert means Desert Desert because Gobi just means desert!

** This is in Mongolian not Chinese, but the Gobi desert stretches into northern China. They call it ?? g?bì.

2. ?? is a century or 100 years.

3? ??????????????? American architecture and Chinese architecture are not the same.

4. ? already means old add the ? and you have ancient!

5. ?? must be a public square a square (the shape) is ??

6. ?? means people or people's. It is the fancy way of saying ??

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These assignments are designed to help you take a deeper look at the characters, the meanings and relationships between the words. The more connections you make the easier new vocabulary will stick!

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Assignment: Answer the questions!

1. Quick! What is another word you know that includes the character ??

2?Look up the separate characters for ??. Why does this word make sense?

3. What kind of ?? do you like most? ????????? Answer in Chinese.
(Use a country name with ?)

4. What part of the character ? is the sound component?

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