博物館

はくぶつかん · hakubutsukan · JLPT N3 · noun

museum

博物館 — museum

🏛️ 博物館 = broad + things + hall: a hall of all kinds of objects

博 (haku) means wide or broad, as in 博士, a broadly learned doctor. 物 (butsu) means thing or object, and 館 (kan) means a large hall or building. A museum is a hall that holds a broad range of objects.

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