"会館" meaning in Japanese

See 会館 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ka̠ikã̠ɴ] Forms: 会館 [canonical] (ruby: (かい), (かん)), kaikan [romanization], kwaikwan [romanization], くわいくわん [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: From Chinese 會館/会馆 (huìguǎn). Analyzable as 会 (kai, “meeting; gathering”) + 館 (kan, “public building”). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|zh|會館}} Chinese 會館/会馆 (huìguǎn), {{af|ja|会|館|t1=meeting; gathering|t2=public building|tr1=kai|tr2=kan}} 会 (kai, “meeting; gathering”) + 館 (kan, “public building”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|かいかん|hhira=くわいくわん}} 会(かい)館(かん) • (kaikan) ^(←くわいくわん (kwaikwan)?)
  1. building that hosts Chinese hometown associations; kongsi
    Sense id: en-会館-ja-noun-Pctsih~2 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 92 8 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 91 9 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 60 40 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9
  2. (by extension) meeting hall, place of assembly Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-会館-ja-noun-2JBswz39
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Download raw JSONL data for 会館 meaning in Japanese (2.3kB)

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