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客
Mandarin · pinyin kè
Meanings
- customer; visitor; guest
- classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
Characters in this entry
- 客
- kè · guest, traveller; customer
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Mandarin tones
4 · ke4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 14 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
haak3
Cantonese word readings for 客. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- guest; visitor
- customer; client; consumer (Classifier: 個／个 c; 位 c)
- to treat with guest etiquette; to receive friendly
- minor; less major; less important
- Agent suffix, indicating “one that engages in ...”.
- one who sponges on a wealthy family; hanger-on; sponger
- traveller; passenger; one who lives away from home
- to live away from home; to live abroad
- (in general) people; person
- objective; beyond human consciousness
- Hakka
- Classifier for units of food sold.
- (literary, obsolete) last; previous
- a surname
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