Meaning & readings
roof, house, shop, dealer, seller
On’yomi オク
Kun’yomi や
Nanori た
Origin
The character 屋 combines two elements to represent a house or shop. The left component 尸, which looks like a person in a bent position, serves as a classifier indicating a structure or space related to human activity. The right component 至 means "to arrive" or "to reach." Together, these suggest a place where people arrive and gather—a house or building where business happens. Over time, this combination came to mean any kind of roofed structure, including shops and the businesses conducted inside them.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 尸
- 至
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 44
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #616 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+05C4B