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動物園
どうぶつえん
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zoo
Dōbutsuen is 動物 (dōbutsu, “animal”) plus 園 (-en, “garden”).
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In a sentence
私は動物園へ行った。
I went to the zoo.
彼らは動物園へ行った。
They went to the zoo.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 動(どう)物(ぶつ) (dōbutsu, “animal”) + 園(えん) (-en, “garden”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 動物園 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.