<p>客, guest, visitor. For a shop, it is customer.</p>

<p>顧客, customer. (顧, look back -> visit and revisit.)</p>

<p>客户, customer account, a customer with account. (户, the front door -> household -> account). Some ignore the concept of account.</p>

<p>客人, 人客. guest / visitor (of human).</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-04-22T14:35:22.433Z
2017-04-22T14:35:22.433Z
OmniBus
<p>顾客 and 客户 are customer(commercial ).
客人 means guest.
客 always means being guest/objective,which is contrast to  the owner/subjective.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-04-21T17:23:48.203Z
2017-04-21T17:23:48.203Z
njj
<ol>
<li>客 is short for 客人 mostly, sometimes short for customer.</li>
<li>客人: guest, visitor</li>
<li>顾客: customer</li>
<li>客户: client</li>
</ol>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-05-31T13:14:13.973Z
2017-06-07T02:25:39.910Z
2017-06-07T02:25:39.910Z
xenophōn
<p>As in the title what is the difference in word usage/meaning between the following fours words: </p>

<ol>
<li><strong>客</strong> </li>
<li><strong>顾客</strong></li>
<li><strong>客户</strong></li>
<li><strong>客人</strong></li>
</ol>

<p>?</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-04-21T16:57:35.750Z
answer found in dictionaries, 客 is a bound morpheme (see dictionaries for compounds, suffix as in 酒客,刺客,政客 ) 顾客 customer; client; shopper，客户 client; customer；buyer；（trading) partner,客人 guest,visitor, also see previous question https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/16776/what-is-the-difference-between-%e9%a1%be%e5%ae%a2-and-%e5%ae%a2%e6%88%b7 for difference between 顾客 and  客户
user6065
<vocabulary><difference>
Difference between 顾客, 客, 客户 and 客人
# Difference between 顾客, 客, 客户 and 客人

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-21)

As in the title what is the difference in word usage/meaning between the following fours words:

1. **客**
2. **顾客**
3. **客户**
4. **客人**

?

**Tags:** vocabulary, difference

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: answer found in dictionaries, 客 is a bound morpheme (see dictionaries for compounds, suffix as in 酒客,刺客,政客 ) 顾客 customer; client; shopper，客户 client; customer；buyer；（trading) partner,客人 guest,visitor, also see previous question https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/16776/what-is-the-difference-between-%e9%a1%be%e5%ae%a2-and-%e5%ae%a2%e6%88%b7 for difference between 顾客 and  客户  

---

## 3 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2017-04-22. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

客, guest, visitor. For a shop, it is customer.

顧客, customer. (顧, look back -> visit and revisit.)

客户, customer account, a customer with account. (户, the front door -> household -> account). Some ignore the concept of account.

客人, 人客. guest / visitor (of human).


---

### Answer by username_3 on 2017-04-21. Score: 0

顾客 and 客户 are customer(commercial ).
客人 means guest.
客 always means being guest/objective,which is contrast to the owner/subjective.


---

### Answer by username_4 on 2017-05-31. Score: -1

1. 客 is short for 客人 mostly, sometimes short for customer.
2. 客人: guest, visitor
3. 顾客: customer
4. 客户: client


---

