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Bookstore in Chinese

bookstore · HSK 1

书店 shū diàn

  1. 书 shū book
  2. 店 diàn shop

Counted with 家: 一家书店 yì jiā shūdiàn

我在书店买了一本小说。 I bought a novel at the bookstore.

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How do you say bookstore in Chinese?

Bookstore in Chinese is 书店 (shū diàn).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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