Chinese Character Wiki
馆

guǎn

public building

Simplified form of 館. Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 官 represents the sound.

Components
饣 meaning component

饣  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

饣 is a component form of 食.

官 sound component

官  Sound component

guān

  

official

Evolution

馆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
馆 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
馆 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
馆 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

馆 (館) 

guǎn

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

馆 (舘) 

guǎn

variant of 館|馆[guǎn]

Most common words with 馆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

旅馆

hotel

馆

shop

图书馆

library

餐馆

restaurant

博物馆

museum

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 41.3743% of movies

824th most common character in movies

1011th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

館

Unicode

U+9986


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