HSK 4 · Places

客厅 kètīng “drawing room (room for arriving guests)” in Chinese

Traditional 客廳

What 客厅 means

  1. drawing room (room for arriving guests)
  2. living room
  3. sitting room

Measure word 间 jiān · 一间客厅 yì jiān kètīng

How to say 客厅

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale厅tīng1st tone, high and level

客厅 in a sentence

  1. 我新家的客厅很宽敞。

    Wǒ xīn jiā de kètīng hěn kuānchang.

    The living room in my new home is very spacious.

    Sentence #336086 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她不在厨房里，也不在客厅里。

    Tā bú zài chúfáng lǐ, yě bú zài kètīng lǐ.

    She’s neither in the kitchen nor in the living room.

    Sentence #530800 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我家在十八层，主卧和客厅都面朝南方。

    Wǒ jiā zài shíbā céng, zhǔwò hé kètīng dōu miàn cháo nánfāng.

    Our flat is on the 18th floor, and both the main bedroom and the living room face south.

    Sentence #11236453 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 客厅 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 厅 (tīng) with each of its parts in a different colour
厅tīnghall
  • 厂cliff · hǎn
  • 丁part of the characterSound part

How to write 客厅

客 9 strokes · 厅 4 strokes

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

Words related to 客厅

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顾客gùkè · customer好客hàokè · hospitable客观kèguān · objective客户kèhù · client

Words with 厅

餐厅cāntīng · dining hall

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FAQs

客厅 (kètīng) means “drawing room (room for arriving guests)” or “living room”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it kètīng: kè with a 4th tone, then tīng with a 1st 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, 客厅 is written 客廳. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 间 (jiān). For example, one drawing room (room for arriving guests) is 一间客厅 (yì jiān kètīng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type keting with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 客厅 from the suggestions. Typing keting into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
客厅 is an HSK 4 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.