店 - Dong Chinese dictionary

diàn

shop

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 占 represents the sound.

Components

广 Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

roof

占 Sound component

zhàn, zhān

divine

店 and 占 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.店 /*tˤem-s/
占 /*tem/

Definitions

diàn

shop, store; inn, hotel; inn; shop; store; CL:家[jiā]

Most common words with 店

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*tˤem-s	temH	diàn	shop [not in GSR]

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 55.0056% of movies

604th most common character in movies

1041st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Unicode	U+5E97

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