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
客流
kèliú
passenger flow; customer flow
Characters in this word
流 liú
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 㐬 pennant
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 地铁公司根据实时客流调整发车间隔，避免站台过度拥挤。 Dìtiě gōngsī gēnjù shíshí kèliú tiáozhěng fāchē jiàngé, bìmiǎn zhàntái guòdù yōngjǐ. The metro company adjusts departure intervals according to real-time passenger flow to avoid overcrowding on platforms.
- 节假日商场的客流特别大。 Jiéjiàrì shāngchǎng de kèliú tèbié dà. Over holidays the mall has an especially heavy flow of customers.
- 下雨天，小店的客流明显减少了。 Xià yǔ tiān, xiǎo diàn de kèliú míngxiǎn jiǎnshǎo le. On rainy days, the little shop clearly gets fewer customers.