参議院

Taken apart

1. 参議

   さんぎ

   participation in government

2. +

3. 院

   いん

   institution

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Written with 参議院

In a sentence

• 参議院(さんぎいん)はどんな改正(かいせい)案(あん)も通(とお)さなくても構(かま)わないようです。

  The Upper House seems bent on defeating any reform bills.

  Tatoeba #169441, translation #245045

• 古参(こさん)議員(ぎいん)たちは、選挙(せんきょ)で参議院(さんぎいん)の議席(ぎせき)を失(うしな)いそうになりました。

  The old guard was nearly voted out of the Upper House.

  Tatoeba #174599, translation #239870

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

• “参議(さんぎ) (sangi, “participation in government”) + 院(いん) (-in, “institution”)”

Source: Wiktionary: 参議院 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese

Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

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Two or more words or stems joined into one.