Word Meaning 商店

しょうてん shouten

商店 is read as しょうてん (shouten) and means shop.

Meaning

English

  1. shop
  2. small store
  3. business
  4. firm

Reading

Kana

しょうてん

Romaji

shouten

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 19 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 3537 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

商店主

しょうてんしゅ

storekeeper

商店街

しょうてんがい

shopping district

個人商店

こじんしょうてん

privately run store

商人

あきうど

merchant

商品

しょうひん

commodity

商業

しょうぎょう

commerce

商売

しょうばい

trade

商社

しょうしゃ

trading company

商談

しょうだん

business discussion

商法

しょうほう

commercial law

商工会議所

しょうこうかいぎしょ

Chamber of Commerce and Industry

商事

しょうじ

commercial affairs

Example Sentences

10

ちちはえきまえでちいさなしょうてんをいとなんでいる。

My father runs a small shop in front of the station.

しょうてんがいにはむかしからのみせがおおい。

There are many old-established shops in that shopping street.

There is a shopping district underground.

There is a shopping area nearby.

There used to be a store right here.

Messrs. Hayashi & Co. is our sole agent in Japan.

There's something nostalgic about walking the shopping district in the evening.

These shops don't get much foot traffic, and there are hardly any cars that come this way.

As we entered the shopping district Haruna's gaze darted about, just like she was a rustic from the hills, as she looked over the area.

This shopping district is the only high street in the local area; it stocks the whole line-up from products for daily life to school study equipment.