HSK 2 · Places

宾馆 bīnguǎn “hotel” in Chinese

Traditional 賓館

What 宾馆 means

  1. hotel
  2. guesthouse
  3. lodge

Measure word 个 gè or 家 jiā · 一个宾馆 yí ge bīnguǎn

How to say 宾馆

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale宾bīn1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale馆guǎn3rd tone, dipping

宾馆 in a sentence

  1. 那是一家宾馆。

    Nà shì yì jiā bīnguǎn.

    That’s a hotel.

    Sentence #1944777 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这里是三星级宾馆，三百元住一晚。

    Zhèlǐ shì sānxīngjí bīnguǎn, sān bǎi yuán zhù yì wǎn.

    This is a three-star hotel; it’s three hundred yuan a night.

    Sentence #420442 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 请帮我叫宾馆保安。

    Qǐng bāng wǒ jiào bīnguǎn bǎo'ān.

    Please call hotel security for me.

    Sentence #794185 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 宾馆 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 宾 (bīn) with each of its parts in a different colour
宾bīnvisitor
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 兵soldier · bīng
The character 馆 (guǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
馆guǎnbuilding
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shí
  • 官official · guān

Memory aidFood 饣 with 官 (guān) for the sound: once a guest house, now a public building.

How to write 宾馆

宾 10 strokes · 馆 11 strokes

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宾馆 (bīnguǎn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 宾馆 (bīnguǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 宾馆

Words with 宾

嘉宾jiābīn · esteemed guest

Words with 馆

饭馆fànguǎn · restaurant图书馆túshūguǎn · library体育馆tǐyùguǎn · gymnasium大使馆dàshǐguǎn · embassy博物馆bówùguǎn · museum领事馆lǐngshìguǎn · consulate

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FAQs

宾馆 (bīnguǎn) means “hotel” or “guesthouse”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it bīnguǎn: bīn with a 1st tone, then guǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 宾馆 is written 賓館. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè) or 家 (jiā). For example, one hotel is 一个宾馆 (yí ge bīnguǎn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type binguan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 宾馆 from the suggestions. Typing binguan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
宾馆 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.