| 客 | 926C50 62.40-9 | 部居  | 畫數 9 | ㄎㄜˋ [ke4] | ||
| N. | (1) Guest, visitor, customer: 賓客 guest: 客人 [ke4ren2]↓; 來客 customer, visitor; 貴客 honored guest; 主客 host and guest; 生客，熟客 new, old customer or visitor; 拜客，送客 receive, send off visitor; 請客 give a dinner for friend; 待客 manner of receiving visitor; 旅客 traveller; 客官formerly, address of visitor at hotel; 客滿 full house. (2) Term used for persons of certain professions: 政客 (contempt.) politician; 劍客，俠客 professional swordsman; 刺客 assassin; 食客 (AC) professional scholars kept by wealthy families; 說 ([shuai4]) 客 (AC) professional diplomats who tried to sell their ideas to rulers. (3) A surname. (4) N. used as modifier (like “guest house,”“guest professor”): 客卿 (AC) alien serving at court; 客座（教授）[ke4zuo4]↓; 客館，客店，客棧 [ke4guan3], [ke4dian4], [ke4zhan4]↓; 客舍 [ke4she4]; 客廳，客堂 [ke4ting1], [ke4tang2]↓; 客房 [ke4fang2]↓; 客居 live abroad; 客旅 travel abroad; 客商，客幫 [ke4shang1], [ke4bang1]↓; 客死他鄉 die abroad. | |||||
| Words | 1. 客幫 [ke4bang1], n., association of merchants working abroad; such group. 2. 客車 [ke4che1], n., passenger car, railway coach. 3. 客氣 [ke4qi0], adj., (1) “manner of guest,”polite, formal, showing restraint: 不要客氣 please feel at home; adj., 你太客氣了 you are“too polite,” i.e., very kind, hospitable, generous in gifts, etc. adj., (2) (AC) impulse of a moment. 4. 客卿 [ke4qing1], n., (AC) alien serving at court. 5. 客串（兒） [ke4chuan4]([ke4chuaher0]), adj. & n., “guest actor”, often amateur participating in opera. 6. 客船 [ke4chuan2], n., passenger boat. 7. 客店 [ke4dian4], n., hotel, inn. 8. 客飯 [ke4fan4], n., a meal of set menu for customer, prix fixe. 9. 客房 [ke4fang2], n., guest room. 10. 客館 [ke4guan3], n., hotel, inn. 11. 客觀 [ke4guan1], adj. & n., objective, -vity: 客觀的批評 objective criticism. 12. 客棧 [ke4zhan4], n., lower-class hotel inn. 13. 客家 [ke4jia1], n., “Hakka” people and their dialect-in eastern Kwangtung. 14. 客籍 [ke4ji2], n., status of foreign resident. 15. 客居 [ke4jU1], v.i., to live abroad. 16. 客票 [ke4piao4], n., seats for invited guests at a theatrical performance. 17. 客人 [ke4ren2], n., visitor at house or hotel. 18. 客商 [ke4shang1], n., merchant abroad. 19. 客舍 [ke4she4], n., guest house, hotel. 20. 客歲 [ke4sui4], n., last year. 21. 客堂 [ke4tang2], n., parlor. 22. 客套 [ke4tao4], n., banal formalities. 23. 客體 [ke4ti3], n., foreign body in organization. 24. 客廳 [ke4ting1], n., parlor, sitting room. 25. 客次 [ke4ci4], n., residence abroad, place stopped at. 26. 客座 [ke4zuo4], n., as in 客座教授 exchange or visiting professor. | |||||