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Mythic Mandarin

药店 (yào diàn): meaning and stroke order

药店 (yào diàn) means pharmacy; drugstore.

药店

Simplified
药店
Traditional
藥店
Pinyin
yào diàn

Stroke order of 药店

药

  • yào leaf of the iris; variant of 藥|药[yao4]
  • yào medicine; drug
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 葯

Stroke by stroke

店

  • diàn inn; old-style hotel (CL:家[jia1]); (bound form) shop; store
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 药店

  1. yào diàn Traditional 藥店
    • pharmacy; drugstore

Radicals of the characters

药
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 9 strokes · 艹 on top, 约 below
店
Radical 广 (Kangxi radical 53) · 8 strokes · built from 广 and 占

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

药店 in our stories

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  • 婚后，他们在镇江开了一家药店。白素贞医术高明，常常免费给穷人看病，药店的名声越来越大。

    hūnhòu tāmen zài Zhènjiāng kāi le yì jiā yàodiàn Bái Sùzhēn yīshù gāomíng chángcháng miǎnfèi gěi qióngrén kànbìng yàodiàn de míngshēng yuèláiyuè dà

    After marrying, they opened a pharmacy in Zhenjiang. Bai Suzhen was a skilled healer and often treated the poor for free, and the shop's reputation grew and grew.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 药店

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).