院

Translingual

Han character

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

1. courtyard, yard, court
2. school, institute

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

院 (Yale yun2)

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Japanese

Kanji

院 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: いん (in)

Compounds

院生 院政 院内感染 医院, 醫院 (いいん, i'in) 学院 (がくいん, gakuin)

寺院 (ji'in) 退院 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

See also Translingual section

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

院 (pinyin yuàn (yuan4), Wade-Giles yüan⁴)

Compounds

院落 院墙 院士 院长 院子

醫院, 医院 (yīyuàn) 病院 (bìngyuàn) 住院 (zhùyuàn) 學院, 学院 (xuéyuàn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

院 (viện)