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building
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingカン
Kun readingやかたたて

Meanings

  1. building
  2. mansion
  3. large building
  4. palace
  5. Bldg.RtK
  1. superintendent
  2. director
  3. curator
  4. chief librarian

Popular Usage

映画館大使館図書館旅館美術館会館

Radicals and components

Components
How it's built

Mnemonic (RtK)

eat · food · umbrella · good · halo · drop () · silver () · bureaucrat · house · maestro without baton

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1589

Compound words

映画館えいがかん
movie theatre; movie theater; cinema
図書館としょかん
library
大使館たいしかん
embassy
旅館りょかん
ryokan; traditional Japanese inn
美術館びじゅつかん
art museum; art gallery
会館かいかん
meeting hall; assembly hall
開館かいかん
opening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)
館長かんちょう
superintendent; director; curator; chief librarian
公館こうかん
official residence
別館べっかん
annex (to a building); annexe; extension; supplementary building
本館ほんかん
main building (as opposed to an annex, outbuilding, etc.); this library; this museum; this theatre; this hall
館内かんない
inside a library, museum, cinema, etc.; on the premises
休館きゅうかん
closure (of a library, museum, etc.)
迎賓館げいひんかん
reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house; State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
公民館こうみんかん
public hall; community center; community centre
水族館すいぞくかん
aquarium (building)
体育館たいいくかん
gymnasium
博物館はくぶつかん
museum
領事館りょうじかん
consulate
入館料にゅうかんりょう
admission fee (for a museum, etc.)
在外公館ざいがいこうかん
diplomatic mission; overseas diplomatic establishment
国立博物館こくりつはくぶつかん
national museum
館員かんいん
personnel (of public building)
記念館きねんかん
museum (esp. in memory of a person or event)
タッソーろう人形へ行く道を教えて頂けませんか。かん
Could you tell me the way to Madame Tussaud's?tatoeba
彼は美術巡りでつかれていた。
He was tired from walking round museums.tatoeba
彼は彼らにその旅に泊まるように言った。
He proposed that they stay at that inn.tatoeba
彼は博物へ行く道を私に聞いた。
He asked me the way to the museum.tatoeba
彼は日曜日にはよく美術にいったものだ。
He used to go to the museum on Sunday.tatoeba

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