(diàn) - shop / store in Mandarin
diànTraditional: 店
Translation
shop / store
Word origin
店 (diàn) 'shop' is a phono-semantic compound. The radical 广 (a roof or building) gives the meaning of a structure, while 占 (zhàn) supplies the sound. The character names a roofed place set up for selling goods, a shop or store.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 广 (building, semantic) + 占 (zhàn, phonetic)
Stroke order
店
Examples
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This shop sells tea.
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That store is very big.
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Let's go to that shop to buy things.
店 (diàn) means shop or store.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 店.
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