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院

Translingual

Han character

院 (radical 170 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中十一山 (NLJMU), four-corner 73211, composition ⿰阝完)

References

  • KangXi: page 1352, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41665
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1854, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4133, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9662

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 院

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 院
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (元) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冠 *kŋoːn, *kŋoːns
莞 *kŋoːn, *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋroːnʔ
脘 *ŋkoːnʔ
筦 *ŋkoːnʔ
梡 *ŋ̥ʰoːnʔ, *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːnʔ
岏 *ŋoːn
刓 *ŋoːn
园 *ŋoːn
忨 *ŋoːn, *ŋoːns
蚖 *ŋoːn, *ŋon
黿 *ŋoːn, *ŋon
抏 *ŋoːn
玩 *ŋoːns
貦 *ŋoːns
翫 *ŋoːns
妧 *ŋoːns
完 *ɦŋoːn
捖 *ɦŋoːn
垸 *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːns
綄 *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋoːnʔ
院 *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋons
皖 *ɦŋoːnʔ, *ɦŋroːnʔ
晥 *ɦŋoːnʔ
浣 *ɦŋoːnʔ
頑 *ŋroːn, *ŋroːn
睆 *ɦŋroːnʔ
鯇 *ɦŋroːnʔ
元 *ŋon
沅 *ŋon
芫 *ŋon
杬 *ŋon
邧 *ŋon, *ŋonʔ
阮 *ŋon, *ŋonʔ
俒 *ɦŋuːn, *ɦŋuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɦŋoːn, *ɦŋons) : semantic 阝 + phonetic 完 ‎(OC *ɦŋoːn).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 院
Mandarin Beijing /yan⁵¹/
Harbin /yan⁵³/
Tianjin /yan⁵³/
Jinan /yã²¹/
Qingdao /yã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /yan³¹²/
Xi'an /yã⁴⁴/
Xining /yã²⁴/
Yinchuan /yan¹³/
Lanzhou /yɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /yan²¹³/
Wuhan /yɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /uan¹³/
/yan¹³/
Guiyang /ian²¹³/
Kunming /iɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /yen⁴⁴/
Hefei /yĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ye⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ye̞³⁵/
Hohhot /ye⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦyø²³/
Suzhou /ɦiø³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦyõ¹³/
Wenzhou /jy²²/
Hui Shexian /ue²²/
Tunxi /yɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /yẽ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /yẽ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /yɵn²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ian⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʒen⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jyn²²/
Nanning /yn³⁵/
Hong Kong /jyn³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /uan²²/
/ĩ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iɛŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋyiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ĩ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zuaŋ³³/
Rime
Character 院 院
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 桓 (62) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I Chongniu III
Fanqie 胡官切 王眷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuɑn/ /ɦˠiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷɑn/ /ɦʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɑn/ /ɣiuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwan/ /ɦwianH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɑn/ /ɣjuɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuɑn/ /ɣĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuɑn/ /i̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huán yuàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 院
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷra[n]-s/
English wall round a courtyard

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 院 院
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16131 16144
Phonetic
component		 元 元
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 桓 瑗
Old
Chinese		 /*ɦŋoːn/ /*ɦŋons/
Notes 同寏

Definitions

院

  1. courtyard; yard
  2. public or government building; court
    電影院 / 电影院  ―  diànyǐngyuàn  ―  cinema
    醫院 / 医院  ―  yīyuàn  ―  hospital
    法院  ―  fǎyuàn  ―  law court
  3. institution; academy
    學院 / 学院  ―  xuéyuàn  ―  institute; academy
  4. hospital

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

院

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

院 ‎(hiragana いん, romaji in)

  1. (historical) Ex-emperor, ex-empress or entitled as equal-to-emperor/empress in cloister (derived from "mansion"; the highly nobles are not addressed directly, but with their residence as substitution)

Suffix

院 ‎(hiragana いん, romaji -in)

  1. temple
  2. institution

Korean

Hanja

院 • ‎(won) (hangeul 원, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

院 (viện)

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