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館

guǎn

public building

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 官 represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

飠  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

官 sound component

官  Sound component

guān

  

official

Evolution

館 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
館 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
館 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
館 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
館 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

馆 (館) 

guǎn

public building; building; shop; term for certain service establishments; embassy or consulate; schoolroom (old); CL:家[jiā]

Most common words with 館
Freq.
Word
Meaning

旅馆

hotel

馆

shop

图书馆

library

餐馆

restaurant

博物馆

museum

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤo[n]ʔ-s

kwanH

guǎn

lodging-house


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 41.3743% of movies

824th most common character in movies

1011th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

馆

Unicode

U+9928

Shuowen

“館，客舍也。从食，官聲。《周禮》：‘五十里有市，市有館，館有積，以待朝聘之客。’”


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