第一医院

第一醫院
dìyīyīyuàn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 No. 1 Hospital
  2. 2 First Hospital (common hospital naming)

Examples

Tā bèi sòng dào shì dìyīyīyuàn jízhěn.
He was taken to the municipal No. 1 Hospital's emergency room.
Běi Dà Dìyīyīyuàn de zhuānjiāhào hěn nán guà.
It's hard to get a specialist appointment at Peking University First Hospital.

Tips

usage
Chinese hospitals are numbered like schools: 第一医院 / 第二医院 / 第三医院. The teaching hospitals of top universities add the school name, e.g. 北大第一医院, 华西第一医院. The 'first' one is usually the flagship with the oldest history.

Stroke Order

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