Today’s #kanji is #院, which is made of the semantic element of #こざとへん(阝) and the phonetic element of 完 although 完 is never pronounced in the same way as 院 in the modern Japanese. 阝’s original meaning was apparently “a hill.” Can you guess what 院 means then?
Meaning: an ex-emperor, a suffix for an institution and/or building – originally a large structure with high fences around
Reading: イン
院政(インセイ): government by a retired emperor; the rule of a cloistered emperor; a cloister government
医院(イイン): a doctor’s clinic, a (doctor’s) clinic
学院(ガクイン): an educational institute, an academy, a seminary
議院(ギイン): the House; the Diet chamber
寺院(ジイン): a (Buddhist) temple; a place of worship; a mosque
書院(ショイン): a study, a drawing room (in the shoin style of traditional Japanese architecture)
大学院(ダイガクイン): a graduate school, a postraduate course (of study)
入院(ニュウイン)する: to be admitted to hospital, to be hospitalized
病院(ビョウイン): a hospital
後白河院(ゴしらかわイン): the ex-Emperor Goshirakawa
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