館 — building, mansion, large building

かん館 building

かん

U+9928 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #613 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1589 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

building
mansion
large building
palace

Readings

On'yomi: かん kan
Kun'yomi: やかた yakata たて tate

word

かん kan On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

館(かん) kan hall 図(と) 書(しょ) 館(かん) toshokan library 会(かい) 館(かん) kaikan hall 大(たい) 使(し) 館(かん) taishikan embassy 旅(りょ) 館(かん) ryokan Japanese inn 体(たい) 育(いく) 館(かん) taiikukan gymnasium 小(しょう) 学(がっ) 館(かん) shougakkan Shogakukan (publishing company) 館(かん) 長(ちょう) kanchou director of a museum

Words by frequency and grade

25 words

Each dot is a word containing 館: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 7 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

飠 food (left form)

かん官 bureaucrat

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