館

See also: 馆 and 舘

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 飠 + phonetic 官.

Han character

館 (radical 184 食+8, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人戈十口口 (OIJRR), four-corner 8377₇, composition ⿰飠官)

References

• KangXi: page 1422, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44237
• Dae Jaweon: page 1947, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4461, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9928

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Chinese

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trad.		館
simp.		馆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guǎn (guan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: kuan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goan
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯a̠n²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun²
    • Yale: gún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun²
    • IPA ^(key): /kuːn³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (館, reconstructed)
Character (館), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 桓 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古玩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kuɑnH/	/kuɑnH/	/kuɑnH/	/kʷɑnH/	/kwanH/	/kuɑnH/	/kuɑnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (館, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
館								guǎn								‹ kwanH ›								/*[k]ˤo[n]ʔ-s/								lodging-house
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
館					4446					官					元					3					管					/*koːnʔ/
館					4448					官					元					3					貫					/*koːns/

Definitions

館

1. accommodation
   • 旅館／旅馆 ("hotel")
   • 賓館／宾馆 ("guest house")
2. shop
   • 飯館／饭馆 ("restaurant")
   • 酒館／酒馆 ("bar, wine shop")
3. building or place for cultural activities
   • 體育館／体育馆 ("gymnasium, stadium")
   • 博物館／博物馆 ("museum")
   • 圖書館／图书馆 ("library")
4. private school
   • 館地／馆地 ("(archaic) school")
   • 書館／书馆 ("(archaic) private school")
   • 蒙館／蒙馆 ("primary school")
   • 館賓／馆宾 ("private teacher, preceptor")

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Japanese

Kanji

館

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Noun

館 (hiragana やかた, romaji yakata)

1. mansion

Alternative forms

• 屋形

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: やかた (yakata), たて (tate)

Suffix

館 (hiragana かん, romaji -kan)

1. hall, building, section of a building, house

Compounds

• 旅館 (りょかん, ryokan): a traditional Japanese inn

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Korean

Hanja

館 (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

館 (quán)

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