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客人

Mandarin · pinyin kè rén

visitor; guest
customer

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客: kè · guest, traveller; customer
人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else

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4–2 · ke4 ren2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

haak3 jan4

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noun

guest; visitor
customer
traveller; guest (at a hotel, etc.)
travelling merchant or trader; foreign business people
(Wuhan Mandarin, dated, euphemistic) mouse
(chiefly Hakka, Southern Min) Hakka (person of Hakka descent)

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