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入院

入院

Chinese

to enter courtyard; institution
simp. and trad.
(入院) 		入 院

Verb

入院

  1. to be admitted to hospital; to be hospitalised
    入院治療 / 入院治疗  ―  rùyuàn zhìliáo  ―  to be admitted to hospital for treatment

Antonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
入 院
にゅう
Grade: 1 		いん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Etymology

/nipuwin/ → /nifuwin/ → /niuwin/ → /njuːin/

Probably from Middle Chinese compound 入院 ‎(nyip hjwenH, literally “enter + institution”). Compare modern Mandarin reading rùyuàn, Cantonese jap6 jyun6.

Pronunciation

Noun

入院 ‎(hiragana にゅういん, romaji nyūin, historical hiragana にふゐん)

  1. hospitalisation

Derived terms

Verb

入院する ‎(intransitive, hiragana にゅういんする, romaji nyūin suru, historical hiragana にふゐんする)

  1. enter the hospital, be hospitalized

Conjugation

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

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