Translingual

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 館
Large seal script	Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

Definitions

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 (“(archaic) school”)
   • 書館／书馆 (“(archaic) private school”)
   • 蒙館／蒙馆 (“primary school”)
   • 館賓／馆宾 (“private teacher, preceptor”)
5. (historical) factory, as a foreign trade emporium

   廣州十三行的館

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: かん (kan), (historical) くわん (kwan)
• Kan’on: かん (kan), (historical) くわん (kwan)
• Kun: やかた (yakata), たて (tate) (non-Jōyō reading), たち (tachi) (non-Jōyō reading), むろつみ (murotsumi) (non-Jōyō reading)

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Alternative forms

• 屋形

Noun

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

Etymology 2

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

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

Noun

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

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

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ta̠t͡ɕi]

Noun

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

/kwan/ → /kan/

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Etymology 5

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

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [mɯᵝɺ̠o̞t͡sɯᵝmi]

Alternative forms

• 室積

Noun

館 ‎(hiragana むろつみ, romaji murotsumi)

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

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

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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