客

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“roof”) + 各 (“individual”) – a individual (各) under a roof (宀) – a guest.

Han character

客 (radical 40 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十竹水口 (JHER), four-corner 3060₄, composition ⿱宀各)

1. guest, visitor, traveller
2. customer

Derived characters

• 額 (额)

References

• KangXi: page 284, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7128
• Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 927, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5BA2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

客 (Yale haak3)

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Japanese

Kanji

客 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: きゃく (kyaku), かく (kaku)
• Kun: まろうど (maroudo)

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Korean

Hanja

客 (hangeul 객, revised gaek, McCune-Reischauer kaek)

• EunHeun Reading: 손객

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Mandarin

Hanzi

客 (pinyin kè (ke4), Wade-Giles k'o⁴)

Compounds

• 博客
• 客人

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Vietnamese

Han character

客 (khách)