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Shuowen

店. The character combines the roof radical 广 with the phonetic 占, indicating a place for divination; in oracle bone script it appears as a roof over a divination symbol, originally meaning 'a divination booth', later used for 'shop' or 'inn'.

Pinyin

diàn· HSK 1