饭店
fàndiàn · HSK 1
restaurant
🍽️🏨 饭 = cooked rice/meal + 店 = shop → meal-shop = restaurant
饭 means cooked rice or a meal; 店 means shop or store. Together they form meal-shop, i.e. a restaurant. By extension 饭店 can also mean hotel, since traditional inns served meals to travelers.
饭 — food radical 飠/饣 + 反 fǎn (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 饣 (simplified from 飠, 'eat/food') gives the meaning, while 反 on the right hints at the sound. Originally referring to cooked grain, it broadened to mean cooked rice and, by extension, a meal in general.
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'.