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药yàoleaf of the iris
艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
约treaty · yāoSound part
艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 约 (yāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with yào.
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 药店
药 9 strokes · 店 8 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 药店 (yàodiàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
药店 (yàodiàn) means “pharmacy” or “drugstore”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it yàodiàn: yào with a 4th 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, 药店 is written 藥店. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yaodian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 药店 from the suggestions. Typing yaodian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
药店 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 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). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
药yào4th tone, falling
