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ssu-ho-yuan

ssu-ho-yuan is the alternative form of siheyuan.

Meaning of siheyuan

Noun

siheyuan (plural siheyuans or siheyuan)

  1. A traditional type of Chinese residence consisting of four houses with a courtyard in the middle; a Chinese quadrangle.
    • Traditional ssu ho yuan, the former homes of courtiers, both mission dwellings consisted of clusters of single-storied, gray-tiled pavilions built around shady courtyards adorned with rock gardens, lotus pools, and ancient fruit trees.[1988, Anthony Grey, Peking: A Novel of China's Revolution, 1921-1978, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54

Origin of ssu-ho-yuan

From the Wade-Giles romanisation of Mandarin 四合院 (sìhéyuàn).

Questions about ssu-ho-yuan

What is ssu-ho-yuan the alternative form of?
Ssu-ho-yuan is the alternative form of siheyuan.

Words near ssu-ho-yuan in the dictionary

  1. sstrange squarks
  2. SSTs
  3. SSTV
  4. SSU
  5. Ssu-ch'uan
  6. ssu-ho-yuan
  7. Ssu-p'ing
  8. Ssupingkai
  9. SSW
  10. SSZ
  11. Ssŭ-ch'uan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ssu-ho-yuan (page history and authors); siheyuan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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