商店 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

shāngdiàn HSK1

shop

shāng commerce, business

Origin unclear. Composed of 辛 (chisel) and 丙 (pedestal) with 口 being later added as a distinguishing component for the name of an ancient kingdom.

Components

辛 Unknown component

xīn laborious

The purpose of this component is unclear.

丙 Unknown component

bǐng third

The purpose of this component is unclear.

口 Distinguishing component

kǒu, kou mouth

This component was later added when the character was used for the name of an ancient kingdom.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syang	s-taŋ	musical note
	syang	s-taŋ	(place name)
	syang	s-taŋ	estimate; business; trader

說文解字

《說文》：“商，从外知內也。从，章省聲。，古文商。，亦古文商。，籀文商。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫The Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese Characters中華語文知識庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

diàn shop

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 占 represents the sound.

Components

广 Meaning component

guǎng roof

占 Sound component

zhàn divine

Change in sound

店 and 占 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
店 *tˤem-s
占 *tem

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	temH	tˤem-s	shop [not in GSR]

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart

商 shāng commerce, business

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

店 diàn shop

Components

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

shāng commerce, business

diàn shop