医院/醫院 yīyuàn — hospital

Meanings

1. 1

   hospital

   A hospital. In China it is also where you go for an ordinary consultation, so 去医院 does not imply anything serious; the phrase for seeing a doctor is 看医生 or 看病.

   noun

Character breakdown

• 医/醫

  yī (first tone, high and level)

  medicine, the healing art; to treat, to cure; a doctor

  7 strokes⿷匚矢Radical 匚
• 院

  yuàn (fourth tone, falling)

  a courtyard, a walled compound; an institution housed in one — a hospital, a college, a cinema

  9 strokes⿰阝完Radical 阜

Example sentences

• 医院在学校后面。/醫院在學校後面。Yīyuàn (first tone, high and level) zài (fourth tone, falling) xuéxiào (second tone, rising) hòumiàn. (fourth tone, falling)···

  The hospital is behind the school.

• 他今天去医院看医生。/他今天去醫院看醫生。Tā (first tone, high and level) jīntiān (first tone, high and level) qù (fourth tone, falling) yīyuàn (first tone, high and level) kàn (fourth tone, falling) yīshēng. (first tone, high and level)···

  He’s going to the hospital to see a doctor today.

Similar words

Words containing 医

• 医生/醫生yīshēng (first tone, high and level)doctor, physician