館

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See also: 馆 and 舘

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 館
simp. 馆

Glyph origin[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːnʔ, *koːns): semantic 飠 + phonetic 官 ‎(OC *koːn).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 館
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古玩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwanH/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 館
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤo[n]ʔ-s/
English 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 館 館
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4446 4448
Phonetic
component		 官 官
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 管 貫
Old
Chinese		 /*koːnʔ/ /*koːns/

Definitions[edit]

館

  1. accommodation
  2. shop
  3. building or place for cultural activities
  4. private school
  5. (historical) factory, as a foreign trade emporium
    廣州十三行的館

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 館

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
館

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
館
やかた
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Compound of 屋 ‎(ya, “house, hut, structure”) +‎ 形 ‎(kata, “shape, form”).[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

館 ‎(hiragana やかた, romaji yakata)

  1. a roofed structure on a boat, shaped like a house
  2. a house-shaped structure on a cart, such as a caravan
  3. a temporary house, a temporary shelter
  4. a mansion, a manor house, an estate
  5. (honorific, archaic) a form of address or reference for a noble
  6. Short for 屋形船 (yakata-bune): a houseboat
Synonyms[edit]
Synonyms

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
館
たて
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Likely derived as the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) tate of verb 建てる ‎(tateru, “to erect a structure”), in turn from the verb 立つ ‎(tatsu, “to stand, to stand up”).[1][2]

The reading tate is most common in eastern Japan, correlating to the tachi reading in western Japan.[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

館 ‎(hiragana たて, romaji tate)

  1. a large building
  2. a mansion, a villa, an estate
  3. (honorific, archaic) a form of address or reference for a noble
  4. a small castle or fort

Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
館
たち
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Likely derived as the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) tachi of verb 立つ ‎(tatsu, “to stand, to stand up”).[1][2] Alternatively, may be a shift in pronunciation from tate above.

The reading tachi is most common in western Japan, correlating to the tate reading in eastern Japan.[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

館 ‎(hiragana たち, romaji tachi)

  1. a large building
  2. a mansion, a villa, an estate
  3. (honorific, archaic) a form of address or reference for a noble
  4. a small castle or fort

Etymology 4[edit]

Kanji in this term
館
かん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

/kwan/ → /kan/

Borrowing from Middle Chinese 館 ‎(/kuɑnH/, “house; lodge; residence; premises”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

館 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan, historical hiragana くわん)

  1. a large building
  2. a mansion, a villa, an estate
  3. a movie theatre

Suffix[edit]

館 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji -kan, historical hiragana くわん)

  1. a hall, a building, a section of a building, a house
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms

Etymology 5[edit]

Kanji in this term
館
むろつみ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Compound of 室 ‎(muro, “cellar; room”) +‎ 積み ‎(tsumi, “piling up, heaping up, stacking up”, the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 積む tsumu, “to pile, heap, or stack up”),[1] possibly in reference to the way that the oldest such buildings may have started out as simple pithouses.

Pronunciation[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

館 ‎(hiragana むろつみ, romaji murotsumi)

  1. (rare, archaic) lodgings along a stagecoach route, an inn

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

館 (quán)

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