国
JLPT HSK 1

guó
Outside: enclosure 口, inside: jade, king 玉 (At the feet of the king 王 is his jade/jewels 丶)
Like an enclosed juwel (jade): That's my country.

	回
JLPT HSK 1

huí

Two squares rotate around a common axis, which represents a rotation and, in particular, a return movement.

	四
JLPT HSK 1

sì

Image of a fist with four fingers (without thumb) seen from inside.

	因
JLPT HSK 2

yīn
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: big 大 person
The fence around the big person has its reason.

	园
JLPT HSK 3

yuán
Outside: frame 囗, inside: yuan, origin 元 (=two 二 legs 儿)
With your garden 囗 you can earn Yuan 元, if you use it for growing plants.

	图
JLPT HSK 3

tú
Frame 囗 and inside: Winter: 冬 (With an upturned foot 夂 on the ice 冫- it's winter) [夂 is typically seen as image of sitting cross-legged]
In the frame is a winterly picture.

	困
JLPT HSK 4

kùn
Outside: enclosure 囗 as a fence, inside: tree 木
The fenced tree is surrounded and in distress. (cf. to protect 保 = Even though the person 亻wanted a fence 口 over the tree 木 to protect 保 it.)

	围
JLPT HSK 4

wéi
Left: enclosure 囗, right: soft leather 韦/韋 (Two layers 二 are separated with a special sword 刀 to make leather.)
(Think of a shoe 鞋) It makes it enclosed by leather, to be well encircled.

	固
JLPT HSK 5

gù
Outside frame 囗, but here: mouth 口, inside: old 古 (= tomb stone). [Some things like the meat of old animals or full-grown vegetable becomes hard with age.]
In the mouth old things taste: hard. [In contrast: In the mouth 口 have young things (= this is "not yet 未") a special taste 味]

	圈
JLPT HSK 5

juān, juàn, quān
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: spool 卷 (security guard 龹 [person 人 with high lifted arms 丷 and two barrier bars 二], slumped person 㔾)
In an enclosure a guard secures a slumped person, that is confined.

	团
JLPT HSK 5

tuán
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: talent 才 (If the big man 大 balances on one foot, he is talented.)
If you have your talents within the enclosure, you form a round regiment.

	圆
JLPT HSK 5

yuán
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: member 员/員 (Who has a mouth 口 and money 贝/貝 can become a member.)
When the members are within the enclosure, it becomes a round thing.

	捆
JLPT HSK 6

kǔn
Left: hand 扌, right: surrounded, distress 困 (By the enclosure 囗 the tree 木 is in distress)
The hand "surrounds" sth, if it ties together as a bundle.

	菌
JLPT HSK 6

jūn, jùn
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 囷 (enclosure 囗, rice plant 禾)
Plants enclosed like this rice plant will be affected by mold.

	囚
JLPT no HSK

qiú
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: person 人
The person inside the enclosure is a prisoner.

	圃
JLPT no HSK

pǔ
Outside: enclosure 囗, inside: just now 甫 (A hand for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now)
Within the enclosure, I make just now my gardening.

	囱
JLPT no HSK

cōng
Above: emphasis 丶 (here: image of a chimney), outside: frame 囗 (here: room), inside: turned foot / cross-legged 夂
You sit cross-legged in a room below the chimney.

	卤
JLPT no HSK

lǔ
Above: devine 卜 (Here: handle of a cover), below: Barrel 囗 with something 㐅 in
The lid on the pickle barrel with something that is brined.