漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
店: store, shop
JLPT N48 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
广 carries the meaning · 占 gives the sound
8 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
テンten · on'yomi · in compounds
- 商店しょうてんshop [n.]
- 書店しょてんbookstore
- 売店ばいてんstand [n.]
- 本店ほんてんhead office
- 支店してんbranch office
- 喫茶店きっさてんcoffee shop
- 店員てんいんsalesperson
- 店頭てんとうshop front
みせmise · kun'yomi · on its own
- 店みせstore [n.]
- 店先みせさきstore front
Also read たな, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)广 house built to depend on a cliff (meaning) + 占 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 店 (rev. 93428468), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Slant roof (广) + occupy/fortune (占). A specific "building" that "occupies" a piece of land for the purpose of trade—the literal definition of a shop.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
占
Also built on fortune-telling (占)
店 takes the 占 family's reading, テン (ten).
Also read テン
12 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side店 store · 广
vs点 spot · 灬In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · diàn
Same form: 店 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 店 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 店 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin diàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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