店
부수: 广
획수: 8획
店 simply means store.
店 = 广 + 占
X = semantic + phonetic
• 广 depicts a building or hut and represents the meanings ‘store’ and ‘place that sells things’.
• 占 depicts the divination ritual of a hole drilled into a turtle shell.
Evolution:
店 = store
占 = 卜 + 口
• 卜 depicts cracks.
• 口 depicts a hole or opening.
Some scholars suggest that ‘divination ritual’ is associated with the meanings ‘arrange’ and ‘display’ (as in ‘goods to sell’).
Mnemonic
占 represents divination rituals and can mean ‘fortune-telling’. Imagine a tarot card reader 占 who has set up business in a small booth 广.
Vocab
| 書店 | 서점 | bookstore |
| 商店 | 상점 | shop; store |
| 店員 | 점원 | shop assistant |
| 本店 | 본점 | head office; main outlet |
| 支店 | 지점 | store branch |
| 閉店 | 폐점 | store closure; go out of business |
| 露店 | 노점 | street vendor |
| 賣店 | 매점 | snack bar |
| 百貨店 | 백화점 | department store |
| 便宜店 | 편의점 | convenience store |
| 食品店 | 식품점 | grocery store |
| 免稅店 | 면세점 | duty-free store |
| 代理店 | 대리점 | a dealership |
| 板門店 | 판문점 | Panmunjom |
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 店].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 473]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 店, 广, 卜, 口].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 195]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.