館かん
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. (large) building; public building; hall
Kanji used
public building
Pitch accent
か
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Used in vocabulary (103 in total)
ryokan; traditional Japanese inn
art museum; art gallery
movie theatre; movie theater; cinema
aquarium (building); oceanarium
superintendent; director; curator; chief librarian
Western-style house (esp. one built in the Meiji or Taisho periods)
official residence
inside a library, museum, cinema, etc.; on the premises
main building (as opposed to an annex, outbuilding, etc.); this library; this museum; this theatre
meeting hall; assembly hall
reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house; State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
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
suffix for building numbers
western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)
museum; reference library; archive; record office
western annex; west building
residence; mansion; estate; dwelling
museum (esp. in memory of a person or event); memorial hall
opening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)
new building; annexe; annex
children's center; child welfare residential facility
historical archive; library of historical records
entire building
personnel (of public building)
parsonage; rectory; vicarage
coming to an embassy, theatre, library, etc.
Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era
northern annex; north building
student union; student center; students' hall
adult museum; sex museum
annex (to a building); annexe
outside a library, museum, etc.; off the premises
southern annex; south building
contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art
public records office; archives
archive; archives
archive; archives
modern art museum; museum of modern art
single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film)
exhibition building; pavilion
produce museum; commercial museum
being in an embassy, aquarium, museum, etc.; being enrolled
art or picture gallery
movie theater; movie theatre; cinema
Shinshokan (publisher)
closure (of a cinema, museum, etc.); closing down; shutting down; closed-down cinema (museum, etc.)
general building; multi-purpose building
movie theater showing a (particular) movie; cinema showing a film
music hall; entertainment hall
Shogakukan (publisher)
archives (building); record office; museum
central building; central wing
settlement house; neighborhood house; voluntarily run welfare facility
the Bunmeikan Theater
first-run theater; first-run theatre
sister museum; sister building; sister pavilion
Demaecan (Japanese home delivery company)
Japan House; Japan Building; Nihonkan
Japan House; Japan Building; Nihonkan
this library; this museum; this theatre; this hall
(indoor) botanical garden; botanical conservatory
information centre (center)
museum of literature; literary museum
agriculture, forestry and fishing industries training institute
Kodokan Judo Institute
eastern annex; east building
municipal community centre; ward residents hall
renting a public hall, community centre, etc.
renting a public hall, community centre, etc.
Kohikan (Japanese coffee shop chain)