Where does “代理店” come from?

代理店 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 店, from Middle Chinese 店.

代理店 (Japanese): distributor; agency; official reseller

Definitions

  1. distributor; agency; official reseller

Ancestry of “代理店”, step by step

代理店 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 店

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese店store, branch
2Middle Chinese店—

via Japanese 代理

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese代理surrogation, proxy; proxy; to act in place of
Every word from Middle Chinese 店 →Every word from Japanese 店 →