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Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
各 宀 ⿱宀各
Mandarin
ke4
English
Definitions
guest; customer; visitor; traveller
Mnemonic
A place 宀 for each 各 person to stay
Etymology
Notes
Originally a woman 女 who speaks 口 in a house 宀; sometimes stop 止 would be at the bottom – this seems to have been changed to 夂 later and perhaps the human figure was removed for simplicity