医院

yī yuàn

hospital

CL:所[suo3],家[jia1],座[zuo4]

medical

yuàn

courtyard

medicine (医) + walled compound (院) = hospital

医 centers on the arrow (矢), evoking the tools and strikes of early medicine — lancing, bleeding, extracting. 院 pairs a place marker with 完, which mainly gives the sound yuàn; together they paint a walled compound dedicated to healing.

他生病了,去医院看了医生。

tā shēng bìng le, qù yī yuàn kàn le yī shēng。

He got sick and went to the hospital to see a doctor.

这附近有一家医院,走路十分钟就到。

zhè fù jìn yǒu yī jiā yī yuàn, zǒu lù shí fēn zhōng jiù dào。

There is a hospital nearby; it is a ten-minute walk to get there.