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医学院 (yī xué yuàn) — medical school; medical college

Definition

noun
medical schoolmedical college
Measure word · 所

Examples

  • 医学院。
    Tā míng nián yào qù yī xué yuàn dú shū.
    He's going to medical school to study next year.
  • 医学院。
    Wǒ mā ma zài yī xué yuàn gōng zuò le èr shí nián.
    My mother has worked at the medical school for twenty years.
  • 医学院。
    yī xué yuàn De xué fèi hěn guì.
    Medical school tuition is very expensive.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

医学medicine
医yīmedicine学xuéstudy
偏正Modifier + head
院yuàninstitution

医学 names the field of medicine and 院 marks an institution, giving a medical school.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 醫; 医 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
酉酉yǒuliquor
Sound part声符shēngfú
殹
殹yì醫yī
Same sound today

The traditional form 醫 pairs 酉 (liquor) with 殹 as a sound part; the simplified 医 is a shorthand, so its parts are not the historical ones.

Open 医 →

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 學; 学 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 學 may have used 爻 and 六 for sound, with hands and a child added later; the simplified 学 is a shorthand.

Open 学 →

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.

Open 院 →
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