客（きゃく）
JLPT N4 · noun
Pitch accent: heiban (flat) — starts low, stays high, no drop
Meaning: customer / guest
Example sentences
- 店に客がたくさん入っている。 — The shop is packed with customers.
- 客の注文をていねいに聞く。 — Listen carefully to the customer's order.
Idioms & proverbs containing “客”
- お客様は神様 (おきゃくさまはかみさま) — the customer is always right; the customer is king
- 千客万来 (せんきゃくばんらい) — flood of customers; roaring business
- 主客転倒 (しゅかくてんとう) — reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end
- 文人墨客 (ぶんじんぼっかく) — writers and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting and calligraphy
- 月卿雲客 (げっけいうんかく) — court nobles and other courtiers allowed into the Imperial Palace
- 不帰の客となる (ふきのきゃくとなる) — to pass away; to depart this life
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See it used in real works
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