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U+5BA2, 客
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BA2

[U+5BA1]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5BA3]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 40, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十竹水口 (JHER), four-corner 30604, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 284, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7128
  • Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 927, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+5BA2
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰraːɡ): semantic (roof) + phonetic (OC *klaːɡ) – a guest.

Etymology

Probably belongs to the word family of (OC *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ, “to go, to come”). Schuessler (2007) cites Tibetan དགྲ (dgra, enemy) as a possible cognate.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • hak/hag/hag5 - vernacular;
  • khiet/kied/kêd5 - literary.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. guest; visitor
       Wǒ jiā lái le.   A guest has come to visit my home.
  2. customer; client; consumer (Classifier: c;  c)
    滿   mǎn   to have a full house
    今日鋪頭麻煩 [Cantonese, trad.]
    今日铺头麻烦 [Cantonese, simp.]
    gam1 jat6 pou3 tau4-2 jau5 go3 haak3 hou2 maa4 faan4 aa3. [Jyutping]
    There was a really annoying customer at the store today.
  3. to treat with guest etiquette; to receive friendly
  4. minor; less major; less important
  5. Agent suffix, indicating “one that engages in ...”.
       zhèng   politician
          assassin
  6. one who sponges on a wealthy family; hanger-on; sponger
  7. traveller; passenger; one who lives away from home
  8. to live away from home; to live abroad
  9. (in general) people; person
  10. objective; beyond human consciousness
       guān   objective
  11. Hakka
    [Sixian Hakka]   Hak-fa [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]   Hakka language
       chúnxiàn   county whose residents are all Hakka people
  12. Classifier for units of food sold.
  13. (literary, obsolete) last; previous
       suì   last year
       dōng   last winter
  14. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (きゃく) (kyaku)
  • Korean: 객(客) (gaek)
  • Vietnamese: khách ()

Others:

  • English: Khek (Hakka)
  • Proto-Hmong-Mien: *khæk (guest)
    • White Hmong: qhua (guest)
  • Lao: ແຂກ (khǣk, guest)
  • Thai: แขก (kɛ̀ɛk, guest), แคะ (kɛ́, Hakka)
  • Vietnamese: Hẹ (Hakka)
  • Zhuang: hek (guest; tourist), hak (government official)

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