院

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 阝 + phonetic 完

Han character

院 (radical 170 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中十一山 (NLJMU), four-corner 7321₁, composition ⿰阝完)

References

• KangXi: page 1352, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41665
• Dae Jaweon: page 1854, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4133, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9662

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		院

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuàn (yuan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yen
• Min Nan (POJ): īⁿ
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hhoe (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yüan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuann
    • IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun²
    • Yale: yún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn²
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yen
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /jen⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: īⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: īnn
    • IPA (Taipei): /ĩ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ĩ²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hhoe (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦø²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (院, reconstructed)
Character (院), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 桓 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡官切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦuɑn/	/ɣuɑn/	/ɣuɑn/	/ɦʷɑn/	/ɦwan/	/ɣuɑn/	/ɣuɑn/
Character (院), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 王眷切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦiuᴇnH/	/i̯wɛnH/	/ɣiuɛnH/	/ɦʷiɛnH/	/ɦwianH/	/ɣĭwɛnH/	/ɣjuænH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (院, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
院								yuàn								‹ hjwenH ›								/*ɢʷra[n]-s/								wall round a courtyard
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
院					16131					元					元					3					桓					/*ɦŋoːn/					同寏
院					16144					元					元					3					瑗					/*ɦŋons/

Noun

院

1. courtyard, yard, court
2. public or government building
   • 電影院／电影院 ("cinema")
   • 醫院／医院 ("hospital")
   • 法院 ("law court")
3. institution
   • 學院／学院 ("institute; academy")

Compounds

Derived terms

院落 院牆／院墙 院士 院長／院长 院長／院长 院子 醫院／医院 醫院／医院 病院 住院 學院／学院 學院／学院

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Japanese

Kanji

院

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: えん (en)
• Kan’on: えん (en)
• Kan’yōon: いん (in)

Compounds

Derived terms

院生 (いんせい, insei) 院政 (いん..., in...) 院内感染 医院, 醫院 (いいん, iin) 学院 (がくいん, gakuin) 寺院 (ji'in) 退院 (たいいん, taiin) 入院 (にゅういん, nyūin) 病院 (びょういん, byōin): hospital 大学院 (だいがくいん, daigakuin)

Noun

院 (hiragana いん, romaji in)

1. (historical) Ex-emperor, ex-empress or entitled as equal-to-emperor/empress in cloister (derived from "mansion"; the highly nobles are not addressed directly, but with their residence as substitution)

Suffix

院 (hiragana いん, romaji -in)

1. temple
2. institution

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Korean

Hanja

院 (won) (hangeul 원, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Compounds

• 孤兒院 (고아원, goawon, “orphanage”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

院 (viện)

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