Chinese

館

guǎn

accommodation

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *koːnʔ, *koːns): semantic 飠 + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

meaningChinese食 “to eat; to have a meal; to take in”
- ideaChinese亼 “mouth”
  - ideaChinese入 “to enter; to go into”
  - ideaChinese一 “one”
- ideaChinese皀 “Prepared food, a vessel full of food (as in 即 and 既, in which is simplified)”
soundChinese官 “government official, public servant”
- ideaChinese宀 “a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms”
- ideaChinese𠂤 “ancient form of 師 (“troops”)”

character

accommodation
shop
mansion
building or place for cultural activities
government office
traditional Chinese private school where classical literature and Confucianism used to be taught

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。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Lineage

meaningChinese食 “to eat; to have a meal; to take in”
- ideaChinese亼 “mouth”
  - ideaChinese入 “to enter; to go into”
  - ideaChinese一 “one”
- ideaChinese皀 “Prepared food, a vessel full of food (as in 即 and 既, in which is simplified)”
soundChinese官 “government official, public servant”
- ideaChinese宀 “a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms”
- ideaChinese𠂤 “ancient form of 師 (“troops”)”

國語辭典 definitions

供賓客住宿的地方。例：旅館、賓館

房舍、住所。例：別館、行館

供人儲藏展覽文物或進行文化、體育活動的場所。例：圖書館、博物館、美術館

供客人飲食娛樂或從事某些工作的場所。例：餐館、茶館、照相館

某種處理外交事務的官署。例：大使館、領事館