How to write 店 (diàn, “inn”)

店 (diàn), an HSK 2 character, means “inn” and “shop”. It is HSK 2 in the 2025 syllabus, up from level 1 in the 2021 standard. It pairs a meaning part, 广 (“shelter”), with a sound part, 占 (“to occupy”). On its own it is an HSK 1 word; it also forms 书店 (“bookstore”), 商店 (“store”) and 饭店 (“restaurant”). Japanese reads it ten, “store”, as a JLPT N4 kanji.

Pinyin: diàn
Strokes: 8
HSK: 2
Radical: 广 (“shelter”)

Stroke by stroke

As a top-left cover character it splits into 广 (“shelter”, the radical), strokes 1–3; 占 (“to occupy”), strokes 4–8, written the cover first.

Vertical ㇑topdown and right
Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
Left-falling stroke ㇒top leftdownwards → down and left
Vertical ㇑topdownwards
Horizontal ㇐centerrightwards
Vertical ㇑bottom leftdownwards
Horizontal-turn ㇕bottomrightwards → down and left
Horizontal ㇐bottomrightwards

Names of the strokes

Japanese and Chinese

Japanese and Chinese draw all 8 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.

Japanese · KanjiVG · 8 strokes

Chinese · Make Me a Hanzi · 8 strokes

Where 店 comes from

building

Meaning part: 广 (“shelter”)
Sound part: 占 (“to occupy”)

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Pinyin and meaning

Pinyin	Meanings	Traditional	In words
diàn fourth tone	inn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store	—	书店商店饭店药店

HSK 2025 syllabus: level 2
2021 standard: level 1
HSK 2.0: in a level 1 word
Words with it: 91 in CC-CEDICT

Words with 店

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
店	diàn	inn; old-style hotel HSK 1
书店書店	shūdiàn	bookstore HSK 1
商店	shāngdiàn	store; shop HSK 1
饭店飯店	fàndiàn	restaurant; hotel HSK 1
药店藥店	yàodiàn	pharmacy; drugstore HSK 2
酒店	jiǔdiàn	wine shop; pub (public house) HSK 2
便利店	biànlìdiàn	convenience store HSK 5
店铺店鋪	diànpù	store; shop HSK 6
分店	fēndiàn	branch; annex
客店	kèdiàn	small hotel; inn

HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).

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