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商shāngcommerce
亠lid · tóu
丷eight form of 八 · bā
冏bright · jiǒngMeaning part
冏 hints at the meaning (bright); 章 (zhāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with shāng.
店diàninn; old-style hotel
广shelter · guǎngMeaning part
占to divine · zhānSound part
广 hints at the meaning (shelter); 占 (zhān) hints at the sound. Compare it with diàn.
How to write 商店
商 11 strokes · 店 8 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 商店 (shāngdiàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
商店 (shāngdiàn) means “shop” or “store”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it shāngdiàn: shāng with a 1st tone, then diàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 商店 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 家 (jiā). For example, one shop is 一家商店 (yì jiā shāngdiàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shangdian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 商店 from the suggestions. Typing shangdian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
商店 is an HSK 1 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
商shāng1st tone, high and level
店diàn4th tone, falling
