客
客 — gaek
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 손 객
- Romanization
- gaek
- English
- guest, traveller; customer
- Mandarin
- kè
- Japanese on'yomi
- キャク, カク, カ, ケ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- まろうど
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #557 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 宀 (40, 6 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 各
- Unicode
- U+5BA2
Parts that make up 客
- 宀 지붕집과 집 안에서 일어나는 일
- 各 각각 각sound 문으로 들어서는 발‘각·락·로’ 계열의 소리
How 客 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 客 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 宀, 各.
Korean example words with 客
- 귀객貴客 Korean gloss: 귀한 손님
- 빈객賓客 Korean gloss: 귀한 손님
- 유객誘客 Korean gloss: 손님을 꾐
- 진객珍客 Korean gloss: 귀한 손님
- 내객來客 Korean gloss: 찾아온 손님
- 선객先客 Korean gloss: 먼저 온 손님
- 선객船客 Korean gloss: 배를 탄 손님
- 신객新客 Korean gloss: 새로 온 손님
- 유객遊客 Korean gloss: 유람하는 사람
- 접객接客 Korean gloss: 손님을 접대함
- 하객賀客 Korean gloss: 축하하는 손님
- 객방客房 Korean gloss: 손님이 묵는 방
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 客
- 客きゃく guest; visitor; customer
- 観客かんきゃく spectator; audience
- 顧客こきゃく customer; client; patron
- 乗客じょうきゃく passenger
- 旅客りょかく passenger; traveller; traveler
- 客席きゃくせき guest seating (e.g. theater, stadium); passenger seat (e.g. taxi); audience
- 客観的きゃっかんてき objective
- 客観きゃっかん objectivity; objective; object (philosophical)
- 旅客機りょかくき passenger plane
- 客室きゃくしつ guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane)
- 客員きゃくいん guest member; associate member; honorary member
- 客船きゃくせん passenger boat
Characters sharing the phonetic 各
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “객”
Other hanja with radical 宀
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences