Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 7
店 shop
- Meaning
- shop
- On reading
- テン
- Kun reading
- みせ
Memory hook
A roof over 占 (to occupy): a roofed space you take over in order to sell things. テン in compounds, みせ on its own.
Words that use 店
店
みせ
shop
書店
しょてん
bookshop
How to write 店
Stroke order · 8 strokes
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- 1. A short dot.
- 2. Horizontal.
- 3 to 4. Vertical.
- 5. Horizontal.
- 6. Vertical.
- 7. Horizontal, then turn down.
- 8. Horizontal.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
店 is taught on day 28 of the kanji course, alongside 休 会 駅, with two writing passes and a short quiz.