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館 = 官 + 食

館 is a Japanese kanji written with 16 strokes, listed here under the keyword “bldg.”. It is built from 官 (bureaucrat) and 食 (eat). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1589.

Keyword
bldg.
RTK frame
1589
Strokes
16
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
カン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
やかた, たて
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
building, блдг.
Same glyph as a traditional Chinese hanzi
館 public building

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 官 bureaucrat
  2. 食 eat

How to find 館 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “bureaucrat” + “eat”. 館 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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