First opened Friday, November 19, 2010
美術館
びじゅつかん
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art gallery, art museum
Bijutsukan is 美術 (bijutsu, “art”) plus 館 (kan, “public building”).
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In a sentence
美術館はどこにありますか。
Where's the museum?
美術館前で降ろしてください。
Could you let me off in front of the museum?
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 美(び)術(じゅつ) (bijutsu, “art”) + 館(かん) (kan, “public building”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 美術館 (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.