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Word and Radical Components of 医院

The Chinese word 医院 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
医院 1. Simplified form of 醫院

医院 ⇨ 医 + 院
Component Pinyin Meanings
医 yì 1. Simplified form of 醫
院 yuàn 1. courtyard; yard
2. public or government building; court
     電影院 - cinema
     醫院 - hospital
     法院 - law court
3. institution; academy
     學院 - institute; academy
4. hospital
5. (Sichuanese) to go around
     Yuan

医 ⇨ 匚 + 矢
Component Pinyin Meanings
匚 fāng 1. right open box
2. a kind of container
3. Variant of 放
4. Variant of 方
矢 shǐ 1. (classical, archery, weapons) arrow
2. to vow; to swear
shǐ 3. Alternative form of 屎 (excrement; poop)

院 ⇨ 阝 + 完
Component Pinyin Meanings
阜 fù 1. (literary) mound
2. (literary) abundant; rich
完 wán 1. whole; complete; intact
     完好 - intact
2. to end; to finish
     說 個 沒 完 - to not stop talking
     噉 就 完 咗 喇laa4？ - Is that all!? / It's over just like that?
3.    Used after a verb to indicate perfective aspect (action completion).
     食 完 - done eating
     搞 完！ - Done!
     你 的 作業 做 完 了 沒有？ - Have you finished your homework?
     我 還 沒 說 完 呢。 - I have not finished talking.
4. to run out; to use up
     信紙 用 完 了 - We are out of writing paper.
5. to complete; to finish
     完工 - to complete a project
     完稿 - to finish a piece of writing
6. (obsolete) firm; stable
7. perfect; faultless; flawless
     完人 - perfect person
8. to fail; to enter a dangerous or hopeless state; to be doomed; done for
9. to pay; to pay back
     完稅 - to pay taxes
10. (obsolete) abundant; sufficient; plentiful
11. (literary) to preserve
12. (literary) to build; to repair; to renovate
13. (historical) an ancient light punishment

完 ⇨ 宀 + 元
Component Pinyin Meanings
宀 mián 1. a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms
2. a kind of flower
3. (Kangxi radical #40 宀* (“roof”))
4. usage. As a component, often referred to as 寶蓋頭.
元 yuán 1. first; primary; head; chief
2. basic; fundamental
3. origin; source
     Synonyms: 原
4. meta-
     (Alternative form 圓)
5. (mathematics) variable; unknown; element
     消元法 (xiāoyuánfǎ) - method of elimination, lit=method of eliminating matrix elements
     立 天元 一 - Let x be the unknown variable in the equation.
     主元 (zhǔyuán) - pivot
6. (math) element (an infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential)
     線-元 (xiànyuán) - line element
7. Yuan Dynasty
     元曲 - Yuan dynasty theater, tr=yuánqū
8. (telegraphy) the thirteenth day of a month
     元 好Hào-問 (Yuán Hàowèn) - Yuan Haowen (Jin dynasty poet)
9. (Taoism) kalpa, a cosmic or supreme cycle of 129,000 years
10. Variant of 圓