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癲狂院 (てんきょういん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

癲てん狂きょう院いん

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Meanings

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noun

mental hospital; asylum; bedlam

obsolete term

Obsolete term for a psychiatric hospital; replaced by 精神科病院 or 精神病院 in modern Japanese. The kanji 癲狂 suggests 'insanity' and is no longer used in medical contexts.

See also: 精神科病院

かつては「癲てん狂きょう院いん」と呼よばれた施し設せつが、今いまは精せい神しん科

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病びょう

院いん

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Facilities once called 'tenkyōin' are now psychiatric hospitals.

Kanji

癲insanity
狂lunatic, insane, crazy
院Inst., institution, temple

Similar words

精せい神しん科か病びょう院いん
Modern standard term for a psychiatric hospital; 癲狂院 is its obsolete predecessor.
精せい神しん病びょう院いん
Common modern term for a mental hospital; 癲狂院 is an archaic equivalent.

Etymology

Compound of 癲狂 (tenkyō, 'insanity') and 院 (in, 'institution'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term fell out of use as psychiatric terminology modernized.