院子 (yuàn zi) means “courtyard; garden; yard; patio; (old) servant”. It is an HSK 2 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Measure word: 个
Practice each character:
院子里有一棵大树。
Yuànzi lǐ yǒu yī kē dà shù.
There is a big tree in the courtyard.
Updated: 2026-07-18