館

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

• 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

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

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

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 example)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• 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)

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

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) やかた [yàkátá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ja̠ka̠ta̠]

• 屋形

館 (hiragana やかた, rōmaji 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

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]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) た​て [táꜜtè] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠te̞]

館 (hiragana たて, rōmaji 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

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]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠t͡ɕi]

館 (hiragana たち, rōmaji 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

/kwan/ → /kan/

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

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) か​ん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

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

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

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

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

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.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝɾo̞t͡sɨᵝmʲi]

• 室積

館 (hiragana むろつみ, rōmaji murotsumi)

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

館 • (gwan) (hangeul 관)

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館 (quán)

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