顾 gù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 页 — page, sheet, leaf
- Made of
- 厄 adversity, difficulty, distress 页 page, sheet, leaf
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
顾客
gùkè
customer
Characters in this word
客 kè
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 各 individual
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 顾客很多。 Gùkè hěn duō. There are many customers.
- 顾客在等。 Gùkè zài děng. The customer is waiting.
- 这位顾客笑了。 Zhè wèi gùkè xiào le. This customer smiled.