HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Places

书店 shūdiàn “bookstore” in Chinese

Traditional 書店

What 书店 means

  1. bookstore

Measure word 家 jiā · 一家书店 yì jiā shūdiàn

How to say 书店

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale书shū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale店diàn4th tone, falling

书店 in a sentence

  1. 他在书店买了本英文书。

    Tā zài shūdiàn mǎi le běn Yīngwén shū.

    He bought an English book at a bookshop.

    Sentence #1021003 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 明天下午我在我爸爸的书店。

    Míngtiān xiàwǔ wǒ zài wǒ bàba de shūdiàn.

    I’ll be at my dad’s bookshop tomorrow afternoon.

    Sentence #10966742 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  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 书店 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 书 (shū) drawn as one shape
书shūbook

书 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidSimplified from 書: a hand holding a brush 聿 over words: to write, a book.

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 书店

书 4 strokes · 店 8 strokes

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

Words related to 书店

Words with 书

书shū · book读书dúshū · to read a book书包shūbāo · schoolbag图书馆túshūguǎn · library电子书diànzǐshū · e-book秘书mìshū · secretary书架shūjià · bookshelf书面shūmiàn · written证书zhèngshū · certificate书记shūji · secretary (of a party committee)

Words with 店

店diàn · shop饭店fàndiàn · restaurant商店shāngdiàn · shop酒店jiǔdiàn · hotel药店yàodiàn · pharmacy

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FAQs

书店 (shūdiàn) means “bookstore”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it shūdiàn: shū 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.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 书店 is written 書店. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 家 (jiā). For example, one bookstore is 一家书店 (yì jiā shūdiàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shudian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 书店 from the suggestions. Typing shudian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
书店 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.