병원

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 病院, from 病 (“sickness”) + 院 (“house”). An orthographic borrowing from Japanese 病院(びょういん) (byōin) and cognate with Jeju 벵완 (beng'wan).

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈpjɘ(ː)ŋwʌ̹n]
  • Phonetic hangul: [병(ː)원]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?byeong'won
Revised Romanization (translit.)?byeong'won
McCune–Reischauer?pyŏngwŏn
Yale Romanization?pyēngwen

Noun

병원 • (byeong'won) (hanja 病院)

  1. a hospital
  2. (by extension) any facility for healing or treatment of people, animals, or things
  3. (South Korean law) a medical facility capable of handling 30 or more patients at a time
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