HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Places

店 diàn “shop” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 店 means

  1. shop
  2. store
  3. inn
  4. old-style hotel
  5. (bound form) shop

How to say 店

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale店diàn4th tone, falling

店 in a sentence

  1. 那个店的菜太贵。

    Nà ge diàn de cài tài guì.

    The food at that restaurant is too expensive.

    Sentence #1216091 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这是他的店。

    Zhè shì tā de diàn.

    This is his shop.

    Sentence #13863114 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她在书店工作。

    Tā zài shūdiàn gōngzuò.

    She works at a bookshop.

    Sentence #6486885 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 店 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 店 (diàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
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 店

店 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

店 (diàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 店 (diàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 店

Words with 店

饭店fàndiàn · restaurant商店shāngdiàn · shop书店shūdiàn · bookstore酒店jiǔdiàn · hotel药店yàodiàn · pharmacy

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FAQs

店 (diàn) means “shop” or “store”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it diàn: diàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 店 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 店 from the suggestions. Typing dian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
店 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older 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.