医院
いいん · iin · JLPT N3 · noun
office
🩺🏥 医院 = doctor + institution: a small doctor-run clinic
医 means medicine or doctor, as in 医者 isha; 院 means an institution or hall. Compare 病院 byōin, literally sick + institution, which is a full hospital. An iin is the smaller local clinic run by a doctor.
院 — left ear 阝(阜) + complete 完
院 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left 阝 (from 阜, mound/hill) suggests walls or enclosed terrain, hinting at an enclosed space. The right 完 (wán) provides the sound and originally meant 'complete', so 院 came to mean a walled courtyard or institution like a hospital or academy.