客 — guest, visitor, customer

きゃく客 guest

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes people business

U+5BA2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #557 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #315 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

guest
visitor
customer
client

word

きゃく kyaku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

客(きゃく) kyaku guest お客(きゃく) 様(さま) okyakusama customer (polite) お客(きゃく) okyaku guest 乗(じょう) 客(きゃく) joukyaku passenger 集(しゅう) 客(きゃく) shuukyaku attracting customers 観(かん) 客(きゃく) kankyaku audience 客(きゃく) 席(せき) kyakuseki audience seat 接(せっ) 客(きゃく) sekkyaku serving customers

きゃっ kya Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

客(きゃっ) 観(かん) kyakkan objectivity

Appears in idioms

千客万来四字熟語

thousand, guest, ten thousand, come

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

かく各 each

Used as component in (1)

がく額 forehead

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#40 宀 roof