漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
館: building, mansion
Also: large building, palace
JLPT N416 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
飠 carries the meaning · 官 gives the sound
16 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 開館するかいかんするopen a building
- 閉館するへいかんするclose a building
- 休館するきゅうかんするclose a library or museum
- 図書館としょかんlibrary
- 映画館えいがかんmovie theater
- 体育館たいいくかんgym
- 大使館たいしかんembassy
- 旅館りょかんJapanese style hotel
たてtate · kun'yomi · on its own
- 函館はこだてHakodate
Also read やかた, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A feast under the lid! Imagine lifting the cover of a steaming pot to find a meal prepared with care.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side館 building · 飠
vs管 pipe · 竹In ChineseSimplified 馆 · traditional, as in Japanese · guǎn
Japan keeps the traditional form 館; mainland China simplifies it to 馆.
- Simplified
- 馆 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 館 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guǎn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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