旅店
lǚ diàn · HSK 6
small hotel
🏨 lǚ diàn = travel + shop — a shop where travelers stop for the night
旅 (lǚ) means travel or journey, 店 (diàn) means shop or store. Put together: a establishment for travelers, i.e. a small hotel or inn. Think of it as a roadside shop that sells rest instead of goods.
店 — 广 (shelter radical) + 占 (zhān, phonetic)
店 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The radical 广 depicts a roof or open shelter, suggesting a building, while 占 supplies the sound (zhān → diàn). Originally it referred to a roadside inn or stall set up under a shelter, and over time the meaning narrowed to 'shop' or 'store'.