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  *店* | 店* | *店
inn; old-style hotel (CL:) / (bound form) shop; store
HSK 2
bookstore / CL:
HSK 1
wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
store; shop / CL: , 個|个
HSK 1
pharmacy; drugstore
HSK 2
restaurant / hotel / CL: , 個|个
HSK 1
inn / small hotel
HSK 6
(Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear themed uniforms (e.g. nurse, student, maid etc), often featuring a more openly flirtatious or physically intimate style of service
(Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear their own casual clothes (as opposed to costumes or formalwear)
(Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear formal evening gowns
convenience store
HSK 7-9
specialty store
HSK 7-9
convenience store (Tw)
company-owned store; store directly operated by the parent company (as opposed to one run by a franchisee, agent or distributor)
café / coffee shop
branch (of a chain store) / annex
barbershop / hairdresser's / CL:
exclusive agency / franchised shop / authorized store
to open shop
hardware store / ironmonger's store
small store
franchise store
bakery / CL:
family-run shop
to try out a restaurant and film a video to share on the Internet
stationery store
retail store
shop / retail store
chain store
dining room / restaurant
love hotel
Xinhua Bookstore, China's largest bookstore chain
beauty salon / CL:
Friendship Store, PRC state-run store originally intended for foreigners, diplomats etc, specializing in selling imported Western goods and quality Chinese crafts
bazaar / department store / general store
nightclub
bakery
boutique
deli; delicatessen
grain store
department store
outlet / commission shop / agency
antique store
Zhangdian District of Zibo city 淄博市, Shandong
(retail) store
fast food shop
grand hotel; large, upscale hotel
flagship (store)
chain store
HSK 7-9
chemist / druggist / pharmacy
Zhoukoudian prehistoric site in Fangshan district 房山區|房山区, Beijing
love hotel
flower shop
Joint Publishing, bookstore chain and publisher, founded in Hong Kong in 1948
small hotel / inn
capsule hotel
tailor's shop
job agency (arch.) / employment shop
fast food shop
Xindian or Hsintien city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
grocery store / emporium
to stop at a hostel
brick and mortar business / physical (rather than online) retail store
Panmunjeom, the Joint Security Area in the Korean demilitarized zone
(Tw) low-budget eatery
drugstore; pharmacy (one that offers health, beauty, and wellness products in addition to medicines – a type of store popular in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong)
lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom) / fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere / to be in a predicament
laundry (commercial establishment)
to buy a business (shop, restaurant etc) and all its assets / to sell a business (shop, restaurant etc) and all its assets
wholesale store / hypermarket
convenience store; variety store
a simple inn with only chicken feathers to sleep on
snack bar / lunch room / CL:
adult shop
lit. to open an inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction) / fig. to carry out a scam / to run a protection racket / daylight robbery
online shop
Hotel Indigo (brand)
dessert parlor serving mainly cold sweets (esp. shaved ice) (Tw)
past this village, you won't find this shop (idiom) / this is your last chance
restaurant
Crowne Plaza (hotel chain)
branch store
commercial laundry / cleaners
coopery
Great Wall Hotel (Beijing Sheraton 喜來登|喜来登)
authorized full-service car dealership (offering sales, spare parts, after-sales service and customer support)
dealership
laundromat / launderette
chain store
lit. inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction) / fig. a scam / protection racket / daylight robbery
past this village, you won't find this shop (idiom) / this is your last chance
inn that also provides facilities for visitors' horses


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