Meaning & readings
store, shop
On’yomi テン
Kun’yomi みせ、たな
Origin
The character 店 combines a roof radical (广) representing a building or structure with the component 占, which serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation. The roof indicates a physical place, while 占 provides a clue to how the character should be pronounced. Together, these elements create a character that represents a roofed structure where commerce happens—a shop or store. This is a typical phono-semantic construction where the visual part (roof) carries the meaning and the sound part helps you remember how to say it.
Components
- 广
- 占
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 8
- Kangxi radical
- 53
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #378 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+05E97