guest, visitor, customer, client
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
八年?!じゃあ…僕が本当の初めての観客だったの?誰も見たことがないの?
Hachinen?! Jaa... boku ga hontou no hajimete no kankyaku datta no? Dare mo mita koto ga nai no?
Eight years?! So... was I your first real audience? Nobody's ever seen you perform?
その味に気づく客は、ほとんどいませんでした。
Sono aji ni kizuku kyaku wa, hotondo imasen deshita.
Few customers ever noticed the seasoning.
そして、満員の客席と、とっくに過ぎ去った台風を背に、タナカはついに舞台に上がりました。
Soshite, man'in no kyakuseki to, tokku ni sugisatta taifuu wo se ni, Tanaka wa tsui ni butai ni agarimashita.
And with the house packed and the typhoon long gone, Tanaka finally stepped onto the stage.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0