Word Meaning 書店

しょてん shoten

書店 is read as しょてん (shoten) and means bookshop.

Meaning

English

  1. bookshop
  2. bookstore

Reading

Kana

しょてん

Romaji

shoten

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 18 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 3492 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

新古書店

しんこしょてん

secondhand bookstore dealing in relatively new books

リアル書店

りあるしょてん

brick and mortar bookstore

秋田書店

あきたしょてん

Akita Shoten (publisher)

古書店

こしょてん

secondhand bookshop

大修館書店

たいしゅうかんしょてん

Taishukan (publisher)

徳間書店

とくましょてん

Tokuma Shoten (publisher)

角川書店

かどかわしょてん

Kadokawa Shoten (publisher)

岩波書店

いわなみしょてん

Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (publisher)

書道

しょどう

calligraphy

書物

しょもつ

book

書き方

かきかた

format (e.g. of a report)

書家

しょか

calligrapher

Example Sentences

10

You can get it at a bookstore.

There are few bookstores in this area.

We went to the bookstore.

There is a bookstore in front of the department store.

You can get it at any bookseller's.

I bought this book at Maruzen Bookstore.

I bought this book at the bookstore in front of the station.

I bought this book from the bookshop near the bus stop.

I'm looking forward to touring bookstores in the US.

You can't enter that bookstore with your shirt off.