病院
bìng yuàn
Pinyin

Definition

病院
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bìng yuàn
  1. specialized hospital

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

学院
xué yuàn
  1. 1 college
  2. 2 educational institute
  3. 3 school
  4. 4 faculty
  5. 5 classifier: 所 suǒ
影院
yǐng yuàn
  1. 1 cinema
  2. 2 movie theater
毛病
máo bìng
  1. 1 fault
  2. 2 defect
  3. 3 shortcomings
  4. 4 ailment
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè
法院
fǎ yuàn
  1. 1 court of law
  2. 2 court
生病
shēng bìng
  1. 1 to fall ill

Idioms (19)

一病不起
yī bìng bù qǐ
  1. 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
久病成良医
jiǔ bìng chéng liáng yī
  1. 1 long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
切中时病
qiè zhòng shí bìng
  1. 1 to hit the target where it hurts (idiom); fig. to hit home
  2. 2 to hit the nail on the head (in an argument)
同病相怜
tóng bìng xiāng lián
  1. 1 fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company
丧心病狂
sàng xīn bìng kuáng
  1. 1 deranged
  2. 2 demented
  3. 3 berserk (idiom)

Sample Sentences

一个月后，我又坐上了班车。但这次班车的终点不再是家，而是市精神病院。或许，对于一个人格分裂的患者来说，那里才是最终的归宿。
yī ge yuè hòu ，wǒ yòu zuòshàng le bānchē 。dàn zhècì bānchē de zhōngdiǎn bùzài shì jiā ，érshì shì jīngshénbìngyuàn 。huòxǔ ，duìyú yī ge réngé fēnliè de huànzhě láishuō ，nàlǐ cáishì zuìzhōng de guīsù 。
A month later, I was on the shuttle bus again. But this time, the bus's final destination wasn't home, like before. It was the local mental hospital. Perhaps, for this split personality patient, this would be my truly final destination.
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