カン
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. house; hall; building
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (73 in total)
main building
personnel (of public building)
movie theatre; movie theater; cinema
public hall; community center; community centre
student union; student center; students' hall
gymnasium
ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run
art gallery; art museum
superintendent; director; curator; chief librarian
Western-style house
official residence
in the building
meeting hall; assembly hall
reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries); guest house; State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
firm; trading company
fortified mansion
old building; older building
martial arts stadium
photo studio
western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)
museum; reference library; archive; record office
suffix for building numbers
residence; mansion; estate; dwelling
new building; annexe; annex
museum (esp. in memory of a person or event); memorial hall
coming to an embassy, theatre, library, etc.
science museum
children's house; child welfare residential facility
manager
entire building
parsonage; rectory; vicarage
Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era
planetarium
adult museum; sex museum
annex (of a library, museum, etc.)
historical archive; library of historical records
outside a building
contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art
public records office; archives
modern art museum; museum of modern art
consulate-general
single-theater; independent (cinema); art-house (film)
produce museum; commercial museum
exhibition building; pavilion
being in an embassy, aquarium, museum, etc.; being enrolled
art or picture gallery
movie theater; movie theatre; cinema
archive; archives
general building; multi-purpose building
music hall; entertainment hall
archives (building); record office; museum
The White House
settlement house; neighborhood house; voluntarily run welfare facility
museum of modern literature
first-run theater; first-run theatre
the Bunmeikan Theater
reference library
Shotokan (style of karate)
information centre (center)
agriculture, forestry and fishing industries training institute
municipal community centre; ward residents hall
holding library