Kanji
Readingかん
Frequency68%
Used in (144 in total)
house; hall; building
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
art gallery; art museum
movie theatre; movie theater; cinema
superintendent; director; curator; chief librarian
Western-style house
official residence
in the building
main building
meeting hall; assembly hall
reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house; State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
annex (to a building); annexe; extension; supplementary building
firm; trading company
fortified mansion
closing (for the day; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); closing down (of a library, museum, cinema, etc.)
public hall; community center; community centre
old building; older building
inn with hot spring facilities; hot spring inn; hot spring ryokan; onsen ryokan
martial arts stadium
entry (into a library, museum, etc.); entering
western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)
museum; reference library; archive; record office
suffix for building numbers
residence; mansion; estate; dwelling
opening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)
new building; annexe; annex
museum (esp. in memory of a person or event); memorial hall
coming to an embassy, theatre, library, etc.
National Diet Library; Library of Congress
closing time (library, museum, etc.)
children's house; child welfare residential facility
public announcement (in a department store, etc.)
city library; municipal library; public library
personnel (of public building)
entire building
parsonage; rectory; vicarage
Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era
student union; student center; students' hall
city meeting hall; civic hall; community center
day on which a museum, library, etc. is closed; closed day
adult museum; sex museum
annex (of a library, museum, etc.)
historical archive; library of historical records
closure (of a library, museum, etc.)
university library; college library
outside a building
leaving (a library, museum, etc.); exiting
contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art
public records office; archives
modern art museum; museum of modern art
single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film)
produce museum; commercial museum
library clerk; librarian
exhibition building; pavilion
being in an embassy, aquarium, museum, etc.; being enrolled
visitor (to a museum, library, etc.)
art or picture gallery
diplomatic mission; overseas diplomatic establishment
mobile library; bookmobile
archive; archives
movie theater; movie theatre; cinema
general building; multi-purpose building
traditional inn priding itself on its cuisine; Japanese-style restaurant with an attached inn
music hall; entertainment hall
cultural museum; museum of culture
archives (building); record office; museum
closure (of a cinema, museum, etc.); closing down; shutting down; closed-down cinema (museum, etc.)
museology; museum studies
traditional love hotel; traditional Japanese inn specially for couples
prefectural meeting hall; civic center; community hall
The White House
traditional inn in a popular tourist area
settlement house; neighborhood house; voluntarily run welfare facility
military officer attached to embassy
the Bunmeikan Theater
first-run theater; first-run theatre
information centre (center)
exhibition hall for promoting tourism and local products
agriculture, forestry and fishing industries training institute
museum material; museum piece
chain movie theaters; chain movie theatres
library edition (of a book)
municipal community centre; ward residents hall
museum (esp. with collections of old objects)
traditional inn priding itself on its cuisine; Japanese-style restaurant with an attached inn
Shuchikan Academy (a fictional school in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)