主顾 (zhǔ gù) — customer, client | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

customerclient

Measure word · 个

主顾。
Zhè wèi zhǔ gù shì wǒ men diàn de lǎo péng you le.
This customer is an old friend of our store.
主顾。
Wǒ men de zhǔ gù dà duō lái zì guó wài.
Most of our customers come from abroad.
主顾。
Zhè wèi zhǔ gù duì shāng pǐn zhì liàng hěn mǎn yì.
This customer is very satisfied with the product quality.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

主zhǔprincipal

顾gùpatronize

主 names the principal, and 顾 means to visit or patronize; together they denote the one who patronizes a shop.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The old forms that became 主 showed a lamp or torch with a flame at the top; other forms showed wood on fire or a spirit tablet.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 顧; 顾 is its simplified writing.

雇頁顧

Meaning part形符xíngfú

頁頁yè

Sound part声符shēngfú

雇

Same sound today

The traditional form 顧 combines 雇 as a sound part and 頁 as a meaning part; 顾 is the simplified form of 顧.

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