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食品店 (shí pǐn diàn) — food store; grocery store

Definition

noun
food storegrocery store
Measure word · 家

Examples

  • 食品店。
    Xiàng kǒu xīn kāi le yì jiā shí pǐn diàn.
    A new food store has opened at the alley entrance.
  • 食品店。
    shí pǐn diàn Lǐ mài de dōu shì rì cháng shí pǐn.
    The food store sells daily groceries.
  • 食品店。
    Tā qù shí pǐn diàn mǎi le xiē líng shí hé yǐn liào.
    He went to the food store and bought some snacks and drinks.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

食品food
食shífood品pǐngoods
偏正Modifier + head
店diànshop

食品 means food products, and 店 is a shop; together a shop selling food products.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

  • 亼亼jímouth
  • 皀皀jía bowl of rice on a stand

The form behind 食 shows 亼, a mouth, together with 皀, a bowl of rice on a stand. In modern 食, the bowl part has changed shape.

Open 食 →

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

品 repeats the same simple shape three times, representing various objects.

Open 品 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
广广guǎnghouse built to depend on a cliff
Sound part声符shēngfú
占
占zhàn店diàn
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

店 shows 广, a house built to depend on a cliff, and 占, which gives the sound.

Open 店 →
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