医院 (yī yuàn)

Character breakdown

• 医 (yī) · 7 strokes

  Originally depicted a quiver, a container for arrows. Later repurposed to mean "medicine" as a simplified form of the traditional character 醫.

• 院 (yuàn) · 9 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 完 represents the sound.

Example sentences

1. Tom在医院。 — Tom is in the hospital.
2. 他在医院。 — He is in hospital.
3. 这是医院。 — This is a hospital.
4. 你们在医院。 — You are in the hospital.
5. 我在医院工作。 — I work in a hospital.

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