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It means " a store which sells vegetables and fruits"

It is pronounced as" Ya.O.Ya".

Here is how it got this name.

青屋 --- became--- 八百屋

The kanji 八百 stands for 800, which means " a lot of vegie and fruits in here "

Green grocer = Yaoya

八百屋 = Yaoya

八百 = eight hundred, from Chinese.

屋 = house, used for a shop which used to be in the form of an ancient house from China.

八百屋 is just a "mnemonic", when you use the native Japanese pronunciation, on how to pronounce Yaoya. Since Chinese gives a better story in aiding memory, Kanji is better than Katakana or hiragana.

Accordingly , native Japanese should use hiragana, not Kanji. Using Kanji are only for those words of Chinese origin or for Japanese-made Kanji.

Greengrocer. And each Kanji is probably read as its sound, and not as its meaning.

thats not important dont worry about that.

it means ''Greengrocer''

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