院

Meaning

院 centers on an enclosed, established place: an institution, a temple, a mansion, or a school. The common thread is a defined physical or organizational compound.

• 病院びょういん
  N5

  hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary

• 入院にゅういん
  N4

  hospitalization; hospitalisation

• 大学院だいがくいん
  N4

  graduate school

• 学院がくいん

  institute; academy

• 上院じょういん

  upper house; upper legislative chamber; senate

• 院長いんちょう

  director (of a hospital, institution, academy, etc.); superintendent; rector

• 寺院じいん
  N2

  Buddhist temple

• 衆議院しゅうぎいん
  N1

  House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)

• 参議院さんぎいん
  N1

  House of Councillors (upper house of the National Diet of Japan)

• 修道院しゅうどういん

  monastery; convent; cloister; abbey

• 退院たいいん
  N4

  leaving hospital; discharge from hospital

• 衆院しゅういん

  House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)

• 参院さんいん

  House of Councillors (upper house of the National Diet of Japan)

• 医院いいん

  doctor's office; doctor's surgery; clinic

• 下院かいん

  lower house; lower legislative chamber

• 通院つういん
  N2

  going to the hospital regularly for treatment; attending hospital as an outpatient

• 院内いんない

  inside the House; inside the Diet

• 大学院生だいがくいんせい

  graduate student; postgraduate student

• 議院ぎいん

  parliament; congress; diet

• 両院りょういん

  both houses of parliament; both upper and lower house

• 書院しょいん

  drawing room; study; writing alcove

• 会計検査院かいけいけんさいん

  Board of Audit

• 僧院そういん

  monastery; temple

• 別院べついん

  branch temple

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