店 — how to write the kanji for “store”
店 (“store” and “shop”) is a JLPT N4 kanji taught in second grade in Japan. In newspapers it is the 378th most used kanji. Its parts sit one inside another: 广 (“shelter”, its radical), strokes 1–3; 占 (“fortune-telling”), strokes 4–8, each finished before the next. On its own it is the word mise, “store; shop”. Its common words take the reading ten: 支店 (“branch office”), 百貨店 (“department store”), 店舗 (“shop”) and 書店 (“bookshop”). Chinese reads it diàn, “inn”, at HSK 2.
- Strokes
- 8
- JLPT
- N4
- Radical
- 广 (“shelter”)
- On
- テン
- Kun
- みせ, たな
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Vertical ㇑topdownwards
- Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
- Left-falling stroke ㇒top leftdownwards
- Vertical ㇑topdownwards
- Horizontal ㇐centerrightwards
- Vertical ㇑bottomdownwards
- Horizontal-turn ㇕bottomrightwards → downwards
- Horizontal ㇐bottomrightwards
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 8 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
Trace it
Follow the numbers. Tracing help
Readings
- On (Chinese-derived)
- テン ten
- Kun (native)
- みせ mise, たな tana
- Meanings
- store; shop
- Read ten
- 支店 百貨店 店舗 書店 商店 店頭
- School year
- second grade
- Newspaper rank
- 378th of 2,500 (KANJIDIC2)
- Korean hanja
- 점 jeom
- Common words
- 35 in JMdict
Words with 店
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 支店 | してん shiten | branch office; branch store |
| 百貨店 | ひゃっかてん hyakkaten | department store |
| 店舗 | てんぽ tenpo | shop; store |
| 書店 | しょてん shoten | bookshop; bookstore |
| 商店 | しょうてん shouten | shop; store |
| 店頭 | てんとう tentou | shopfront; storefront |
| 本店 | ほんてん honten | head office; main office |
| 支店長 | してんちょう shitenchou | branch manager; manager of a branch office |
| 店員 | てんいん ten'in | employee; shop assistant |
| 代理店 | だいりてん dairiten | agency; agent |
Most common first (JMdict).
Practice sheet
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Keep going
Same parts:
JLPT N4, in list order: