HSK 6 · Work

客户 kèhù “client” in Chinese

Traditional 客戶

What 客户 means

  1. client
  2. customer

How to say 客户

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale客kè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale户hù4th tone, falling

客户 in a sentence

  1. 银行对风险客户收取较高的贷款利息。

    Yínháng duì fēngxiǎn kèhù shōuqǔ jiào gāo de dàikuǎn lìxī.

    Banks charge higher interest on loans to high-risk customers.

    Sentence #332651 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 催促客户去完成一件任务是很让人头疼的事。

    Cuīcù kèhù qù wánchéng yí jiàn rènwu shì hěn ràng rén tóuténg de shì.

    Pushing clients to finish a task can be a real headache.

    Sentence #2431766 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我是个客户。

    Wǒ shì ge kèhù.

    I’m a client.

    Sentence #13911352 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 客户 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 客 (kè) with each of its parts in a different colour
客kècustomer; visitor; guest
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 各individual · gè

Memory aidSomeone 各 welcomed under your roof 宀: a guest.

The character 户 (hù) with each of its parts in a different colour
户hùa household
  • 丶dot · zhǔ
  • 尸corpse · shī

How to write 客户

客 9 strokes · 户 4 strokes

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客户 (kèhù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 客户 (kèhù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 客户

Words with 客

不客气bú kèqi · you’re welcome客人kèrén · guest游客yóukè · tourist请客qǐngkè · to treat someone (to a meal)做客zuòkè · to be a guest客厅kètīng · drawing room (room for arriving guests)顾客gùkè · customer好客hàokè · hospitable客观kèguān · objective

Words with 户

窗户chuānghu · window账户zhànghù · bank account用户yònghù · user家喻户晓jiāyùhùxiǎo · known to everyone

More words: Work & Career

纪要jìyào · summary决策juécè · to make a policy decision开除kāichú · to expel考核kǎohé · to assess落实luòshí · to put into effect派遣pàiqiǎn · to dispatch评估pínggū · to evaluate签署qiānshǔ · to sign (an agreement)

FAQs

客户 (kèhù) means “client” or “customer”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kèhù: kè with a 4th tone, then hù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 客户 is written 客戶. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kehu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 客户 from the suggestions. Typing kehu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
客户 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.