(yuàn) - courtyard, institution; suffix for institutions (hospital, school) in Mandarin
yuànTraditional: 院
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Translation
courtyard, institution; suffix for institutions (hospital, school)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the mound radical 阝 (a wall or enclosure) gives the meaning of a walled courtyard, while 完 (wán) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 阝 (mound and wall radical) + 完 (wán, phonetic)
Stroke order
院
Examples
。
My mother works at the hospital.
。
He went to the hospital to see the doctor.
。
This hospital is very big.
。
I am going to the hospital to see a doctor.
闹。
The cinema is lively tonight.
院 (yuàn) is a bound morpheme that names institutions, most familiarly 医院 (yīyuàn), hospital.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 院.
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