Chinese

店

diàn
shop; store (Classifier: 家 m; 間／间 m mn)
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 2
  • radical 广
  • 8 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tiːms): semantic 广 (“house built to depend on a cliff”) + phonetic 占 (OC *ʔljem, *tjems)

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese广 “house built to depend on a cliff”
  • soundChinese占 “to divine; to foretell”
    • ideaChinese卜 “to divine”
    • ideaChinese口 “mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)”

Words built on it: 商店, 酒店

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