館

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

Translingual

Han character

館 (radical 184, 食+8, 16 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

trad. 館
simp. 馆
alt. forms 舘

Glyph origin

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, OC *koːnʔ, *koːns) : semantic 飠 + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

Pronunciation

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
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 館
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤo[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

館

  1. accommodation
  2. shop
  3. building or place for cultural activities
  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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

館

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
館
やかた
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

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

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

  • 屋形

Noun

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
Synonyms

Etymology 2

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

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

Noun

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

Etymology 3

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

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

Noun

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

Etymology 4

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

/kwan/ → /kan/

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Suffix

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

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

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
館
むろつみ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

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

Alternative forms

  • 室積

Noun

館 (hiragana むろつみ, rōmaji 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

Korean

Hanja

館 • (gwan) (hangeul 관)

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Vietnamese

Han character

館 (quán)

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