Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

院: Inst., institution

Also: temple, mansion, school

JLPT N410 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

⻖ carries the meaning · 完 gives the sound

10 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

インin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 大学院だいがくいんgraduate school
  • 病院びょういんhospital
  • 美容院びよういんbeauty salon
  • 参院さんいんHouse of Councillors (upper house of the…
  • 衆院しゅういんHouse of Representatives (lower house of…
  • 下院かいんlower house; lower legislative chamber
  • 上院じょういんupper house; upper legislative chamber
  • 学院がくいんinstitute; academy

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)阜, as 阝 (meaning) + 完 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 院 (rev. 92202111), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Hill (阝) + complete/wall (完). A "complete" set of walls and buildings established on a "hill"—the definition of a large, solemn institution or temple.”
From the 阝 hill story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
⻖

Also built on hill (⻖)

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完

Also built on perfect (完)

The 完 sound family doesn't share one reading.

Also read イン

15 kanji share this on'yomiAll 15

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
院 Inst. · ⻖
vs莞 smiling · 艹
院 has ⻖ where 莞 has 艹.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yuàn

Same form: 院 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
院 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
院 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yuàn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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