店
diàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A shop or business premises, and the usual ending of words for kinds of shop. Alone it usually comes with a measure word: 这家店 'this shop', 开店 'to open a shop'. As the last part of a compound it is everywhere: 书店 'bookshop', 饭店 'restaurant', 商店 'shop'.
Tiệm, cửa hàng; chữ ngắn thường đứng cuối tên các loại cửa hàng. Đứng một mình thường đi với lượng từ 家: 这家店 (tiệm này), 开店 (mở tiệm). Hay gặp nhất ở cuối từ ghép: 书店 (hiệu sách), 饭店 (nhà hàng), 商店 (cửa hàng).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “店” mean?
A shop or business premises, and the usual ending of words for kinds of shop. Alone it usually comes with a measure word: 这家店 'this shop', 开店 'to open a shop'. As the last part of a compound it is everywhere: 书店 'bookshop', 饭店 'restaurant', 商店 'shop'.
Is “店” formal or informal?
店 is generally neutral.