HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Body

出院 chūyuàn “to leave hospital” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 出院 means

  1. to leave hospital
  2. to be discharged from hospital

How to say 出院

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale院yuàn4th tone, falling

出院 in a sentence

  1. 再过两周你就可以出院了。

    Zài guò liǎng zhōu nǐ jiù kěyǐ chūyuàn le.

    In another two weeks you’ll be able to leave hospital.

    Sentence #8940733 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他就要出院了。

    Tā jiù yào chūyuàn le.

    He’s about to be discharged from hospital.

    Sentence #13199804 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 出院 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

The character 院 (yuàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
院yuàncourtyard
  • 阝placeMeaning part
  • 完to complete · wánSound part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 完 (wán) hints at the sound. Compare it with yuàn.

How to write 出院

出 5 strokes · 院 9 strokes

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出院 (chūyuàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 出院 (chūyuàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 出院

Words with 出

出租车chūzūchē · taxi出chū · to go out出国chūguó · to go abroad出来chūlái · to come out出门chūmén · to go out出去chūqù · to go out出生chūshēng · to be born出现chūxiàn · to appear演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)出差chūchāi · to go on an official or business trip

Words with 院

医院yīyuàn · hospital电影院diànyǐngyuàn · cinema住院zhùyuàn · to be in hospital法院fǎyuàn · court of law国务院guówùyuàn · State Council (of China)

More words: People, Body & Health

病人bìngrén · patient牙yá · tooth住院zhùyuàn · to be in hospital身高shēngāo · (a person’s) height爱情àiqíng · romance儿童értóng · child房东fángdōng · landlord父亲fùqīn · father

FAQs

出院 (chūyuàn) means “to leave hospital” or “to be discharged from hospital”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it chūyuàn: chū with a 1st tone, then yuàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 出院 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuyuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 出院 from the suggestions. Typing chuyuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
出院 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.