Chinese Character Wiki
客

kè

guest

Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components
宀 meaning component

宀  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

各 sound component

各  Sound component

gè

  

each

Evolution

客 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
客 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
客 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
客 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

客  

kè

guest, traveller; customer; visitor; guest

Most common words with 客
Freq.
Word
Meaning

客户

client

客

customer

客人

visitor

客气

polite

顾客

client

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (2 verified)

額 额 喀 髂

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰˤrak

khaek

kè

guest


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 68.2524% of movies

524th most common character in movies

583rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5BA2

Shuowen

“客，寄也。从宀，各聲。”


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