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(diàn) - shop / store in Mandarin

diàn

Traditional: 店

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HSK 2
#1690 of 5,000 Core 1000

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)

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Examples

This shop sells tea.

That store is very big.

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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This word is part of lesson 16.