Chinese Character 客 Meanings and components.

Form

客

Meaning

客 meaning[3] in English

Customer.

Visitor.

Guest.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 客 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'roof' radical in … (宀) , and each (各)

Its radical[1] is: 宀 (mian2) which means: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc, See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4], .宀mian2'roof' radical …

In cangjie it is written with JHER

How to write 客

To write客ke4customer you should write a combination of 宀mian2'roof' radical … , 各ge4each arranged in a 吕 shape:

宀 + 各 = 客

客 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 客 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 客, looks as follow:

客
Pinyin:ke4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Customer . Visitor . Guest
宀
Pinyin:mian2
Meaning[3]: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc . See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4]
各
Pinyin:ge4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Each . Every
夂
Pinyin:zhi3
Meaning[3]: 'Walk Slowly' Component In Chinese Characters . See Also 冬字頭|冬字头[Dong1 Zi4 Tou2]
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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