Wiktionary

館

See also: 舘 and 馆
館 U+9928, 館
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9928
← 餧
[U+9927] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 餩 →
[U+9929]

館 U+FA2C, 館
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA2C
← 飼
[U+FA2B] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 鶴 →
[U+FA2D]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

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

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1422, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44237
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1947, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4461, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+9928

Chinese edit

trad. 館
simp. 馆
alternative forms 舘

Glyph origin edit

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／饣 + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • guang2 - Shantou;
  • guêng2 - Chaozhou.
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
Baxter kwanH
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gun3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 館
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guǎn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kwanH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[k]ˁo[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
    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. mansion
  4. 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
  5. (historical) government office
    差館／差馆 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  caai1 gun2 [Jyutping]  ―  police station
  6. (historical) traditional Chinese private school where classical literature and Confucianism used to be taught
    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
  7. (historical) factory (as a foreign trade emporium)
    廣州十三行的館／广州十三行的馆  ―  Guǎngzhōu Shísānxíng de guǎn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai 館  
Kyūjitai
[1][2][3][4]
館
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館+&#xFE00;? 		 
館󠄁
館+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
館󠄃
館+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
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Kanji edit

館

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
館
やかた
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
舘
屋形

Compound of 屋 (ya, “house, hut, structure”) +‎ 形 (kata, “shape, form”).[5][6]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit
Synonyms

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
館
たて
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
舘

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”).[5][6]

The reading tate is most common in eastern Japan, correlating to the tachi reading in western Japan.[5][6]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
館
たち
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
舘

Likely derived as the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) tachi of verb 立つ (tatsu, “to stand, to stand up”).[5][6] 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.[5][6]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

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

/kwan/ → /kan/

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

館(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

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

Suffix edit

館(かん) • (-kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  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
Alternative spellings
舘
室積

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [mɯ̟ᵝɾo̞t͡sɨᵝmʲi]

Noun edit

館(むろつみ) • (murotsumi) 

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

References edit

  1. ^ “館”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024
  2. ^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “館”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎[2] (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN
  3. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2341 (paper), page 1222 (digital)
  4. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1379 (paper), page 702 (digital)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja edit

館 (eumhun 객사 관 (gaeksa gwan))

  1. Hanja form? of 관 (“hotel, inn, public building”).

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

館: Hán Nôm readings: quán[1]

  1. a shop (for foods and drinks)
  2. (only in compounds) a hall, a building

References edit

  1. ^ Trần (1999).
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