公园 (gōng yuán)

Character breakdown

• 公 (gōng) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of a earthen jar for holding liquid, now written as 瓮. The current meaning "public" is a phonetic loan.

• 园 (Yuán) · 7 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 元 represents the sound. Simplified form of 園.