客
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.customer; visitor; guest
- 2.classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
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Wiktionary
- 1.guest; visitor
- 2.customer; client; consumer (Classifier: 個／个 c; 位 c)
- 3.to treat with guest etiquette; to receive friendly
- 4.minor; less major; less important
- 5.Agent suffix, indicating “one that engages in ...”.
- 6.one who sponges on a wealthy family; hanger-on; sponger
- 7.traveller; passenger; one who lives away from home
- 8.to live away from home; to live abroad
- 9.people; person
- 10.objective; beyond human consciousness
- 11.Hakka
- 12.Classifier for units of food sold.
- 13.last; previous
- 14.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰraːɡ): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 各 (OC *klaːɡ) – a guest. Probably belongs to the word family of 格 (OC *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ, “to go, to come”). Schuessler (2007) cites Tibetan དགྲ (dgra, “enemy”) as a possible cognate.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我請客。
It's my treat.
請不要客氣。
Please make yourself at home.
客廳裏有什麼？
What's in the living room?
這輛公車客滿了。
The bus was filled to capacity.
你在客廳吃飯嗎？
Do you eat in the living room?
客廳緊鄰著餐廳。
The living room adjoins the dining room.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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