圖書館

See also: 図書館, 图书馆, and 圖書舘

Chinese

		books	house; establishment
trad. (圖書館)		圖書	館
simp. (图书馆)		图书	馆
alternative forms		圖書舘

圖書舘／图书舘 (túshūguǎn) (vertical, with 舘 (guǎn) variant)

圖書館 (right-to-left)

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 図(と)書(しょ)館(かん) (toshokan), from 図(と)書(しょ) (tosho, “books”) + 館(かん) (kan, “building”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): túshūguǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨ ㄍㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ syu¹ gun²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thù-sû-kón
• Eastern Min (BUC): dù-cṳ̆-guāng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tô͘-su-koán / tô͘-chir-koán / tô͘-si-koán / tô͘-chu-koán

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dou⁵ ze¹ guang² / dou⁵ ze¹ guêng² / dou⁵ zu¹ guang²

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶du-sy-kuoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: túshūguǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨ ㄍㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: túshuguǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu²-shu¹-kuan³
    • Yale: tú-shū-gwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twushugoan
    • Palladius: тушугуань (tušuguanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ ʂu⁵⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou⁴ syu¹ gun²
    • Yale: tòuh syū gún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ sy¹ gun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ xu¹ gun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ syː⁵⁵ kuːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù-sû-kón
    • Hakka Romanization System: tuˇ su´ gon`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tu² su¹ gon³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰu¹¹ su²⁴ kon³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dù-cṳ̆-guāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵³⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)ʒy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(k-)uaŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-su-koán
    • Tâi-lô: tôo-su-kuán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dosu'koarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/
    • IPA (Philippines): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² su³³ kuan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-chir-koán
    • Tâi-lô: tôo-tsir-kuán
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɯ³³ kuan⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-si-koán
    • Tâi-lô: tôo-si-kuán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dosi'koarn
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³⁻²² si⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-chu-koán
    • Tâi-lô: tôo-tsu-kuán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dozu'koarn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dou⁵ ze¹ guang² / dou⁵ ze¹ guêng² / dou⁵ zu¹ guang²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tôu tsṳ kuáng / tôu tsṳ kuéng / tôu tsu kuáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ³³⁻²³ kuaŋ⁵²/, /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ³³⁻²³ kueŋ⁵²/, /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡su³³⁻²³ kuaŋ⁵²/

Note:

• dou5 ze1 guêng2 - Chaozhou;
• dou5 zu1 guang2 - Chaoyang .

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶du-sy-kuoe
    • MiniDict: du^去 sy kuoe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³du-sr-kuoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /du²² sz̩⁵⁵ kuø²¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 圖書館

1. library (Classifier: 家 m; 間／间 c)

   學生們通常以圖書館為家。 [MSC, trad.]
   学生们通常以图书馆为家。 [MSC, simp.]

   Xuéshēngmen tōngcháng yǐ túshūguǎn wéi jiā. [Pinyin]

   Students usually regard libraries as [their] [second] home.

   圖書館是人類知識的海洋。 [MSC, trad.]
   图书馆是人类知识的海洋。 [MSC, simp.]

   Túshūguǎn shì rénlèi zhīshí de hǎiyáng. [Pinyin]

   Libraries contain knowledge of human experience as vast as the open sea.

Synonyms

• (Dungan) 書房／书房 (фуфон)

Descendants

• → Zhuang: duzsuhgvanj

See also

• (abbreviation) 圕 (tuān)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
圖	書	館
と Hyōgaiji	しょ Grade: 2	かん Grade: 3
on’yomi

Noun

1. Kyūjitai form of 図書館: library

Derived terms

• 圕

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Korean

Hanja in this term
圖	書	館

Noun

圖書館 • (doseogwan) (hangeul 도서관)

1. Hanja form^? of 도서관 (“library”).