家属院

家屬院
jiāshǔyuàn
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 staff family compound
  2. 2 employee residential quarters
  3. 3 work-unit housing compound

Examples

Tā cóngxiǎo zài dàxué jiāshǔyuàn zhǎng dà.
He grew up in a university staff housing compound.
Yīyuàn jiāshǔyuàn jiù zài mǎlù duìmiàn.
The hospital's staff compound is right across the road.

Tips

culture
A relic of the 单位 (work-unit) era: state employers — universities, hospitals, factories, ministries — built walled 家属院 to house employees' families next to the workplace. Many still exist and remain a distinct social microcosm in Chinese cities.

Stroke Order

jiā
shǔ
yuàn