客
Symbols Relationships
guest
ㄎㄜˋ kè
Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
Someone received into your home or your business. The same character covers a visitor, a customer and a traveller far from home.
Before you commit
Choose with care客 is also the ordinary word for a paying customer, in 顧客 and 客戶. Standing alone in a shop or on skin, commercial readings come easily.
At small sizesNine strokes under a roof radical. Well balanced and dependable small, including on curved skin.
Cultural note客氣 means polite or reserved, literally guest manner, and it is used daily. The character carries the sense of formality between people who are not intimate.
Meaning
Guest, visitor; also customer, and one living away from home.
The single character behind every word about being received.
Other characters for “guest”
What to do next
Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.
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