客

kè
#583 most
frequent character
customer, visitor, guest

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

客 pairs 宀, a picture of a building, with 各 gè, a sound part. The building part gives the first sense, a guest. It grew to visitor or traveller, then passenger, then customer.

Drawn as: building

客 as a component in other characters

sound3 characters
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