客

Translingual

Stroke order

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)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		客

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kè (ke⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haak³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): hak
• Min Dong (BUC): káh
• Min Nan (POJ): kheh / khek
• Wu (WT Romanisation): khaq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kè
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: k'o⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keh
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: haak³
    • Yale: haak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haak⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /hɑːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hak
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /hak̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: káh
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɑʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kheh / khek
    • Tâi-lô: kheh / khik
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰeʔ³²/, /kʰɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰeʔ³²/, /kʰɪk̚³²/
  • Note: kheh - vernacular, khek - literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: khaq (T4)
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰᴀʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (客, reconstructed)
Character (客), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 溪 (29) Final: 陌 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 苦格切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʰɣæk̚/	/kʰɐk̚/	/kʰɐk̚/	/kʰɯak̚/	/kʰaɨjk̚/	/kʰɐk̚/	/kʰak̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (客, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
客								kè								‹ khæk ›								/*kʰˤrak/								guest
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
客					3903					各					鐸					0					客					/*kʰraːɡ/

Definitions

1. guest, visitor, traveller
2. customer

Compounds

Derived terms

博客 客人 人客 背包客 (bēibāokè)

References

• (Hakka) CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

客

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan’on: かく (kaku)
• Kun: まろうど (maroudo)

Noun

客 (hiragana きゃく, romaji kyaku)

1. guest
2. customer
3. patron

Usage notes

This is used as part of a form of address for a customer, like sir or ma'am. Because a customer is in a much higher social position, this word is used with the honorific prefix 御 (お, o-) and the honorific suffix さん (-san) or more often さま (-sama), rendering お客さん (okyakusan) or お客様 (okyakusama).

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Korean

Hanja in this word

客

Noun

客 (gaek) (hangeul 객)

1. Hanja form^? of 객, “guest”.

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Vietnamese

Han character

客 (khách)

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