商店
shāng diàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A shop or store, the general word for a place that sells goods to the public. Its measure word is 家, so 'a shop' is 一家商店. A large shopping centre or department store is a 商场 (shāngchǎng).
Cửa hàng, từ chung chỉ nơi bán hàng hoá cho mọi người. Lượng từ là 家: 一家商店 (một cửa hàng). Trung tâm thương mại hay cửa hàng bách hoá lớn thì gọi là 商场 (shāngchǎng).
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 “商店” mean?
A shop or store, the general word for a place that sells goods to the public. Its measure word is 家, so 'a shop' is 一家商店. A large shopping centre or department store is a 商场 (shāngchǎng). Literally: trade shop
Is “商店” formal or informal?
商店 is generally neutral.