병원

Korean

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).

(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

병원 • (byeong'won) (hanja 病院)

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