客

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customer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A person 各 welcomed under one's roof 宀; 各 also provides the pronunciation

Components 宀各

guest · Heisig RSH #312

house + 各 each

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
不客气	bù kè qi	you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt
客家人	Kè jiā rén	Hakka people
空中客车	Kōng zhōng Kè chē	Airbus (aerospace company)
不用客气	bù yòng kè qi	you're welcome; don't mention it; no need to stand on ceremony
大客车	dà kè chē	coach
开市客	Kāi shì kè	Costco (warehouse club chain)
理中客	lǐ zhōng kè	rational, neutral, objective (abbr. for 理性、中立、客觀\|理性、中立、客观[li3 xing4 , zhong1 li4 , ke4 gua…
天外来客	tiān wài lái kè	visitors from outer space
上门客	shàng mén kè	bricks-and-mortar customer; walk-in customer
客家语	Kè jiā yǔ	Hakka (a Chinese dialect)
老客儿	lǎo kè r	erhua variant of 老客[lao3 ke4]
客人	kè rén	visitor; guest; customer
水客	shuǐ kè	smuggler, esp. of electronic goods from Macao or Hong Kong to Guangdong; boatman; fisherma…
客制化	kè zhì huà	customization (Tw)
回头客	huí tóu kè	repeat customer
客家	Kè jiā	Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern …
拉客	lā kè	to solicit (guests, clients, passengers etc); to importune
客机	kè jī	passenger plane
行客	xíng kè	visitor; traveler
反客为主	fǎn kè wéi zhǔ	lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior

These characters use 客 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
客 sound part	kè	guest, traveller; customer
额	é	forehead; quota, amount
喀	kā	to vomit; used in transliterations
髂	qià	pelvis, hip bone