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院

yuàn

HSK 1 Character Measure word 个

What 院 means

1. courtyard
2. institution

Example sentences

• 她去医院了
  She went to hospital.
• 他没去医院
  He didn't go to hospital.
• 这是医院。
  This is a hospital.
• 他在医院。
  He is in hospital.
• 我得去医院。
  I have to get to the hospital.
• 我去了医院。
  I went to the hospital.

Words starting with 院

• 院子yuàn zicourtyard; garden; yard
• 院长yuàn zhǎngthe head of an institution whose name ends in 院
• 院校yuàn xiàocollege; academy; educational institution
• 院士yuàn shìscholar; academician; fellow (of an academy)
• 院落yuàn luòcourtyard
• 院感yuàn gǎnhospital-acquired infection; nosocomial infection (abbr. for 医院感染
• 院本yuàn běnscript for opera (esp. in Yuan times)
• 院线yuàn xiàntheater chain (abbr. for 电影院线)
• 院试yuàn shìthe last of the three entry-level exams in the imperial examination system of Ming and…
• 院牧yuàn mùabbot (Christian)
• 院坝yuàn bà(dialect) courtyard

Words containing 院

• 医院yī yuànhospital
• 法院fǎ yuàncourt of law; court
• 国务院Guó wù yuàn(mainland) State Council; (USA) State Department
• 学院xué yuàncollege; educational institute; school
• 住院zhù yuànto stay in hospital; to be hospitalized
• 电影院diàn yǐng yuàncinema; movie theater
• 影院yǐng yuàncinema; movie theater
• 大院dà yuàncourtyard; compound
• 出院chū yuànto leave hospital; to be discharged from hospital
• 剧院jù yuàntheater
• 寺院sì yuàncloister; temple; monastery
• 后院hòu yuànrear court; back garden; backyard (also fig.)
• 庭院tíng yuàncourtyard
• 四合院sì hé yuàncourtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)
• 检察院jiǎn chá yuànprosecutor's office; procuratorate
• 医学院yī xué yuànmedical school
• 研究院yán jiū yuànresearch institute; academy
• 人民法院rén mín fǎ yuànpeople's court (of law); people's tribunal
• 法学院fǎ xué yuànlaw school
• 商学院shāng xué yuànbusiness school; university of business studies
• 中国科学院Zhōng guó Kē xué yuànChinese Academy of Science
• 美容院měi róng yuànbeauty salon; beauty parlor
• 妓院jì yuànbrothel; whorehouse
• 精神病院jīng shén bìng yuànmental hospital; psychiatric hospital

Characters built on 完

These share the phonetic component 完 (wán), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 莞guānSkimmia japonica
• 浣huànto wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty)
• 鲩huàngrass carp
• 筦Guǎnsurname Guan

Characters that look like 院

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 现xiànto appear; present; now
• 股gǔthigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share
• 脆cuìbrittle; fragile; crisp
• 舰jiànwarship
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧

Sounds the same

Read yuàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 愿honest and prudent; variant of 愿
• 怨to blame; (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge
• 苑(literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park…
• 远to distance oneself from (classical)
• 瑗large jade ring
• 媛(bound form) beautiful woman (in practice, often pronounced yuán); Taiwan pr. yuán
• 掾official
• 夗to turn over when asleep