館

See also: 舘 and 馆

Translingual

Han character

館 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人戈十口口 (OIJRR), four-corner 8377₇, composition ⿰飠官)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1422, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38895
• Dae Jaweon: page 1947, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4461, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9928

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Chinese

trad.		館
simp.		馆
alternative forms		舘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 館
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (官) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
官	*koːn
棺	*koːn, *koːns
倌	*koːn, *kroːns
悹	*koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫	*koːn, *koːns
管	*koːnʔ
琯	*koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯	*koːnʔ, *koːns
輨	*koːnʔ
錧	*koːnʔ, *koːns
館	*koːnʔ, *koːns
婠	*koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺	*koːns
逭	*ɡoːns
菅	*kroːn
綰	*qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾	*qoːd

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 館

1. accommodation
   • 旅館／旅馆  ―  lǚguǎn  ―  hotel
   • 賓館／宾馆  ―  bīnguǎn  ―  guest house
2. shop
   • 飯館／饭馆  ―  fànguǎn  ―  restaurant
   • 酒館／酒馆  ―  jiǔguǎn  ―  bar, wine shop
3. building or place for cultural activities
   • 體育館／体育馆  ―  tǐyùguǎn  ―  gymnasium, stadium
   • 博物館／博物馆  ―  bówùguǎn  ―  museum
   • 圖書館／图书馆  ―  túshūguǎn  ―  library
4. private school
   • 館地／馆地  ―  guǎndì  ―  (archaic) school
   • 書館／书馆  ―  shūguǎn  ―  (archaic) private school
   • 蒙館／蒙馆  ―  méngguǎn  ―  primary school
   • 館賓／馆宾  ―  guǎnbīn  ―  private teacher, preceptor
5. (historical) factory, as a foreign trade emporium
   • 廣州十三行的館／广州十三行的馆  ―  guǎngzhōu shísān xíng de guǎn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

館

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: やかた (yakata, 館, Jōyō); たて (tate, 館); たち (tachi, 館); むろつみ (murotsumi, 館)

Etymology 1

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

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

Alternative forms

• 屋形

Noun

館(やかた) • (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. Clipping of 屋形船 (yakata-bune): a houseboat

Synonyms

Synonyms

• (structure on a boat): 船(ふね)屋(や)形(かた) (funeyakata)
• (temporary house): 仮(かり)屋(や) (kariya), 寓(ぐう)居(きょ) (gūkyo)
• (mansion, manor): 邸(てい)宅(たく) (teitaku); 館(たて) (tate), 館(たち) (tachi) (see above)
• (honorific): 館(たて) (tate), 館(たち) (tachi) (see above)
• (houseboat): 屋(や)形船(かたぶね) (yakata-bune)

Etymology 2

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”).

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

Noun

館(たて) • (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

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”). 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.

Noun

館(たち) • (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

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

/kwan/ → /kan/

From Middle Chinese 館 (MC kwanH, “house; lodge; residence; premises”).

Noun

館(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

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

Suffix

館(かん) • (-kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 図(と)書(しょ)館(かん) (toshokan): a library
• 博(はく)物(ぶつ)館(かん) (hakubutsukan): a museum
• 美(び)術(じゅつ)館(かん) (bijutsukan): an art gallery
• 旅(りょ)館(かん) (ryokan): a traditional Japanese inn

Etymology 5

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”), possibly in reference to the way that the oldest such buildings may have started out as simple pithouses.

Alternative forms

• 室積

Noun

館(むろつみ) • (murotsumi) 

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

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Korean

Hanja

館 • (gwan) (hangeul 관)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 館 (quán)

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