Illustration: Across the entrance courtyard of a small regional museum, the principal building faces the approach with broad doors opening directly onto a staffed reception hall. Two smaller exhibition annexes stand to either side, connected back to it by covered passages.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

本ほん館かん

honkan

main building

Example sentences

  1. 別館べっかんは本館ほんかんの北側きたがわにある。

    The annex is on the north of the original building.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また、本館ほんかんと新館しんかんは地下道ちかどうで結むすばれるようになる。

    In addition, the Original Museum Building was connected with the New Wing through an underground passage.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 本館ほんかんと別館べっかんがあり、同窓会どうそうかいなどに利用りようされている。

    It consists of a main building and its annex, being used by alumni.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 本館

  • 本book; presentOnホンKunもと
  • 館building; mansionOnカンKunやかた・たて

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