HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Body

住院 zhùyuàn “to be in hospital” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 住院 means

  1. to be in hospital
  2. to be hospitalised
  3. to stay in hospital

How to say 住院

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale住zhù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale院yuàn4th tone, falling

住院 in a sentence

  1. 我必须住院吗？

    Wǒ bìxū zhùyuàn ma?

    Do I have to stay in hospital?

    Sentence #1344764 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 她已经住院一个月了。

    Tā yǐjīng zhùyuàn yí ge yuè le.

    She’s been in hospital for a month.

    Sentence #1928625 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 汤姆还在住院。

    Tāngmǔ hái zài zhùyuàn.

    Tom is still in hospital.

    Sentence #345325 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 住院 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 住 (zhù) with each of its parts in a different colour
住zhùto live; to reside; to stay
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 主to own · zhǔ

Memory aidA person 亻 staying where the host 主 lives: to live, to stay. 主 (zhǔ) also gives the sound.

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 住院

住 7 strokes · 院 9 strokes

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

Words related to 住院

Words with 住

住zhù · to live忍不住rěnbuzhù · cannot help住宅zhùzhái · residence居住jūzhù · to live (in a place)

Words with 院

医院yīyuàn · hospital电影院diànyǐngyuàn · cinema出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital法院fǎyuàn · court of law国务院guówùyuàn · State Council (of China)

More words: People, Body & Health

腿tuǐ · leg嘴zuǐ · mouth病人bìngrén · patient牙yá · tooth身高shēngāo · (a person’s) height出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital爱情àiqíng · romance儿童értóng · child

FAQs

住院 (zhùyuàn) means “to be in hospital” or “to be hospitalised”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it zhùyuàn: zhù with a 4th 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. 住院 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhuyuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 住院 from the suggestions. Typing zhuyuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
住院 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.