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入院 (rù yuàn) — to be hospitalized; (Buddhism) to enter a monastery; to become a monk

Definition

Literally 'enter the institution (院)'. The common sense is 'be admitted to hospital'; the Buddhist sense of 'enter a monastery' is rare and specialized.

verb
to be hospitalized(Buddhism) to enter a monasteryto become a monk

Examples

  • 入院。
    Tā yīn wèi zhòng bìng rù yuàn le.
    He was hospitalized due to a serious illness.
  • ，。
    Tā rù guò yí cì yuàn, zhù le liǎng gè xīng qī.
    He has been hospitalized once and stayed for two weeks.
  • 入院，。
    Tā nián qīng shí rù yuàn xiū xíng, hòu lái chéng wéi le yì míng sēng rén.
    When he was young, he entered a monastery to practice and later became a monk.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

入rùenter
院yuàninstitution

入 means enter and 院 means hospital or monastery, so 入院 is to enter such an institution.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

入 is drawn as an arrowhead, indicating 'to enter'.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
阝Written in full as阜fù
Sound part声符shēngfú
完
完wán院yuàn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

院 is built from 阝, written in full as 阜, and 完, which gives the sound.

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Appears in
Hospital & Clinic

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