館かん
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. (large) building; public building; hall
I'll be showing you around our building.
Kanji used
public building
Pitch accent
か
ん
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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)
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
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
western annex; west building
suffix for building numbers
museum; reference library; archive; record office
western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)
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
contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art
exhibition building; pavilion
southern annex; south building
public records office; archives
archive; archives
archive; archives
modern art museum; museum of modern art
single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film)
Japan House; Japan Building; Nihonkan
Japan House; Japan Building; Nihonkan
produce museum; commercial museum
being in an embassy, aquarium, museum, etc.; being enrolled
art or picture gallery
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
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)
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)
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.