1, basic meaning:
House for entertaining guests: hotel. Hotel. The permanent residence of a diplomat of one country in another country: the embassy. Consulate. Names of some service shops: barber shop. Photo studio. A restaurant. A place where cultural relics are collected and displayed or cultural and sports activities are held: a museum. Planetarium Cultural Center. Library. Exhibition hall. Gymnasium. In the past, it refers to the place where teachers teach: sitting in the library. Home pavilion.
2. Extended information:
1. In traditional Chinese characters, there are two ways to write the word "Guan". There is a strict difference between the word "food" and "restaurant". The word "shed" refers to libraries, gymnasiums and funeral homes. However, since the simplification of Chinese characters, these two writing methods have been replaced by "pavilion", and people write it indiscriminately. However, in the case of traditional Chinese characters, it is still necessary to distinguish. Some people say it's popular now, but I still can't imagine what it's like to eat in the library. Why did ancestors invent two different ways of writing? Of course, each has its own meaning. Although the emergence and implementation of simplified characters have increased the convenience of writing and communication, they have also lost something.
2. Sound and form. From the food, the official voice. The "museum" provides accommodation, so it comes from "food". Its variant character is "zhong zhong", which shows that "Guan" belongs to the category of houses. Sightseeing, living and feasting can be large in scale, generous in layout and similar in structure to the guild hall.
3. Promote deeds:
Promotion of Major Activities of China Library Association 1929 1. At the first annual meeting of China Library Association, Du Dingyou put forward the case of "adopting new words". Later, when the association wrote a letter to the library about "interview and circulation", it asked the local library to widely use the word "... The General Situation of China Library Association published by the association in 1933 took the promotion of the new word" Huan "as the fourth item of the first item in its career-library administrative promotion.