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喫茶店
きっさてん
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Kissaten is 喫茶 (kissa, “drinking tea”) plus 店 (-ten, “shop; store”).
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
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- “喫茶(きっさ) (kissa, “drinking tea”) + 店(てん) (-ten, “shop; store”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 喫茶店 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.