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)

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, iin)
• 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

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 (hangeul 원 (won), 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)

Noun

院 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yuàn)

1. yard, courtyard
2. public or government building

   医院 (醫院), 法院

3. institution

   学院 (學院)

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)

References

• "院" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-23.

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Vietnamese

Han character

院 (viện)