Chinese Character 店 Meanings and components.

Form

店

Meaning

店 meaning[3] in English

Inn.

Shop.

Store.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 店 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'house on a … (广) , and variant of 占[zhan4] (占)

Its radical[1] is: 广 (guang3) which means: 'House On A Cliff' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 53), Occurring In 店, 序, 底 Etc, .广guang3'house on …

In cangjie it is written with IYR

How to write 店

To write店dian4inn you should write a combination of 广guang3'house on … , 占zhan4variant of … arranged in a 吕 shape:

广 + 占 = 店

店 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 店 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 店, looks as follow:

店
Pinyin:dian4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Inn . Shop . Store . Cl:家[Jia1]
广
Pinyin:guang3
Meaning[3]: 'House On A Cliff' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 53), Occurring In 店, 序, 底 Etc
占
Pinyin:zhan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 占[Zhan4]
卜
Pinyin:bo5
Meaning[3]: Surname Bu
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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