A Sino-Japanese noun element meaning a shop or store. As an independent word it is uncommon in everyday speech; learners will mainly meet it inside compounds such as 店舗 and 本舗.
「店舗」や「本舗」の舗は、店や商店を表す。
The 舗 in 店舗 and 本舗 indicates a shop or store.
counter for foldable items; counter for folded maps and similar things
Specialized counter for 畳物, foldable or folded items such as maps. This is rare in ordinary conversation and is more likely in cataloging, historical, or bibliographic contexts.
See also: 畳物
In catalogs of old documents, folded maps may be counted as 一舗, 二舗, and so on.
店 is the ordinary, everyday word for a shop, while 舗 is a formal, bound Sino-Japanese element mainly seen inside compounds like 店舗 and 本舗.
shop; store; establishment
paving; surfacing; pavement
head office; main shop
paved road; paved street
seal shop; stamp maker
famous store; quality shop
shop; store
bookstore; bookshop
long-established shop; old store
Standard modern kanji form. In current Japanese it is most often encountered as a bound element in compounds such as 店舗 and 本舗, or as a specialized counter.
Variant/older-looking written form given; 舗 is the practical spelling for most modern use.
A Sino-Japanese morpheme written 舗, with 鋪 also given as a variant spelling. No historical derivation is specified. The spelling is conventionally associated with shops/stores and the specialized counter use.
paving stone
tea store; tea shop
pharmacy; drugstore; chemist
pawnshop
store name; shop name