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映画館
えいがかん
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movie theater, cinema
Eigakan is 映画 (eiga, “movie”) plus 館 (-kan, “building”).
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In a sentence
映画館にいたんだ。
I was at a movie theater.
映画館内は禁煙です。
Smoking is not permitted in the cinema.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 映画(えいが) (eiga, “movie”) + 館(かん) (-kan, “building”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 映画館 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.