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养老院

yǎng lǎo yuàn

HSK 3.0 level 6 3-character word Traditional 養老院

养老院 (yǎng lǎo yuàn) means "nursing home". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 养老院 means

1. nursing home

The characters in 养老院

• 养yǎngto raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 院yuàncourtyard; institution

Example sentences

• 我们今天得去养老院唱歌。
  Wǒmen jīntiān de qù yǎnglǎoyuàn chànggē.
  We have to sing at an old folks home today.

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