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> 開店時は82歳だった林さんが、慣れた手つきで団子を焼いている
> ([source](https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210920/k00/00m/040/036000c))  
>  _Hayashi san, who was 82 years old when she opened the store, makes
> dumplings with her experienced hands._

and I was wondering whether to read 開店時【かいてんとき】 or 開店時【かいてんじ】
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readings parsing
What is the reading of 開店時?
Like the English verb _open_ , 開店 is ambiguous between _start a new shop_ and
_open in the morning_. (For the latter, usually most shops open in the
morning, I suppose, but it could be in the evening or at night. Anyway for the
first time in the day.)

開店時 in the first sense is read as かいてんじ.

開店時 in the second sense can be read both as かいてんじ and かいてんどき of which my
impression is that かいてんどき is more common.

The 開店時 in the question is in the ~~second~~ first sense, so it can be read as
~~both~~ かいてんじ.
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First of all, it’s never かいてんとき. If it’s not かいてんじ, it must be かいてんどき with a
_dakuon_.

I would read it as かいてんじ in either sense of 開店.

かいてんどき sounds to me like a good time for opening a business.
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