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客人
kèrén
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- pinyin
- kèrén
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- 客人
- traditional
- 客人
1 · noun
Someone visiting another person’s home or attending an event as a guest.
到别人家里或活动中做客的人。
一位客人 is a more courteous counting expression than 一个客人. The customer sense is not covered here.
The guests will arrive at six.
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客人六点到。
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One of the guests does not drink tea.
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有一位客人不喝茶。
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客 + 人. Rén has the second tone and ends in n, not ng.
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2 · noun
A person received at someone else’s home or at an event.
到别人家中或活动中受到接待的人。
This use concerns guests, as in 一位客人 or 招待客人. A 客人 in a shop may instead be a customer; that commercial use is excluded.
After the guests left, we moved the chairs back to the study.
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客人走后，我们把椅子搬回了书房。
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The host saved a piece of cake for each guest.
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主人给每位客人留了一块蛋糕。
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Mandarin reading: kèrén.
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guest — A person invited to visit someone or attend an event.