かん
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. (large) building; public building; hall
I'll be showing you around our building.
Pitch accent
か
ん
Used in vocabulary (100 in total)
opening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)
aquarium (building); oceanarium
Western-style house (esp. one built in the Meiji or Taisho periods)
ryokan; traditional Japanese inn
movie theatre; movie theater; cinema
children's center; child welfare residential facility
art museum; art gallery
reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house; State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
museum (esp. in memory of a person or event); memorial hall
Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era
gymnasium
superintendent; director; curator; chief librarian
inside a library, museum, cinema, etc.; on the premises
official residence
main building (as opposed to an annex, outbuilding, etc.); this library; this museum; this theatre
meeting hall; assembly hall
trading company (esp. a Japanese outpost of a foreign firm); trading house; firm; factory
fortified mansion
martial arts stadium; (Nippon) Budokan (indoor arena in Tokyo)
public hall; community center; community centre
old building; older building
photo studio
western annex; west building
suffix for building numbers
western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)
museum; reference library; archive; record office
residence; mansion; estate; dwelling
new building; annexe; annex
science museum
manager
historical archive; library of historical records
entire building
personnel (of public building)
parsonage; rectory; vicarage
planetarium
coming to an embassy, theatre, library, etc.
student union; student center; students' hall
northern annex; north building
adult museum; sex museum
annex (to a building); annexe
local history museum
outside a library, museum, etc.; off the premises
contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art
exhibition building; pavilion
southern annex; south building
public records office; archives
single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film)
modern art museum; museum of modern art
archive; archives
archive; archives
consulate-general
Japan House; Japan Building; Nihonkan
Japan House; Japan Building; Nihonkan
produce museum; commercial museum
White House
art or picture gallery
being in an embassy, aquarium, museum, etc.; being enrolled
closure (of a cinema, museum, etc.); closing down; shutting down; closed-down cinema (museum, etc.)
movie theater; movie theatre; cinema
Shinshokan (publisher)
general building; multi-purpose building
movie theater showing a (particular) movie; cinema showing a film
music hall; entertainment hall
archives (building); record office; museum
Shogakukan (publisher)
Ritsumeikan University
settlement house; neighborhood house; voluntarily run welfare facility
museum of modern literature
central building; central wing
first-run theater; first-run theatre
the Bunmeikan Theater
sister museum; sister building; sister pavilion
reference library
Shotokan (style of karate)
(indoor) botanical garden; botanical conservatory
information centre (center)
agriculture, forestry and fishing industries training institute
municipal community centre; ward residents hall
holding library
this library; this museum; this theatre; this hall
history museum
renting a public hall, community centre, etc.
museum of literature; literary museum
eastern annex; east building
honorary consulate
Kodokan Judo Institute
Kohikan (Japanese coffee shop chain)
Shiseikan Hall University
Demaecan (Japanese home delivery company)
Examples (2 in total)
I'll be showing you around our building.
There is an empty classroom in the East Building that is not being used now.