客人|きゃくじんkyakujin[0]heiban (flat)

1. nouncaller; visitor; company; guest
   客人きゃくじんたちはその幸しあわせな夫婦ふうふが末永すえながく裕福ゆうふくな人生じんせいを送おくる事ことを祈いのった。↗

   The guests wished the happy couple a long and prosperous life.

• Synonymお客様おきゃくさまFormalFormal honorific that shops use for customers and visitors, ordinary ones included; more deferential than 「客人」.
• Synonym客きゃくWrittenA written spelling of 「客賓（まろうど）」 for a guest from afar, archaic; when read 「きゃく」 it broadly means guests or customers.
• Synonym来客らいきゃくNeutralStresses the visitor who has come, as in 「来客中」; more common than 「客人」 in company settings.
• Synonym賓客ひんきゃくFormalFormal term for a guest of honour; stresses a guest of standing and is grander than 「客人」.
• Synonym来賓らいひんFormalFormal term for guests invited to a ceremony, as in 「来賓挨拶」.
• Synonym訪問者ほうもんしゃNeutralNeutral, objective word for someone who visits; no nuance of being entertained.
• SynonymゲストNeutralLoanword for a guest, especially a featured guest on TV or radio programmes; trendier than 「客人」.
• SynonymビジターNeutralLoanword for a visitor, or the visiting team in a sports match.
• Synonymお客さんおきゃくさんCasualColloquial and the everyday default; warmer than 「客人」. Also covers customers and passengers.
• Synonym客賓まろうどWrittenWritten, archaic term for a guest from afar; stresses that the visitor has come a long way and has a classical flavour.
• Synonym訪客ほうきゃくNeutralStresses the guest who calls on you; leans written and is used less than 「客人」.
• Synonym来者らいしゃNeutralStresses the person who comes, or one's junior; rather old-fashioned and not limited to guests.
• Synonym来訪者らいほうしゃNeutralStresses the person who has come to visit; leans written, as in visitor registers.
• Synonym訪問客ほうもんきゃくNeutralStresses someone coming to a home or office on an errand or to meet someone; a businesslike term.
• Related観光客かんこうきゃくNeutralTourists travelling for sightseeing, not guests visiting one's home.
• Related見舞い客みまいきゃくNeutralNarrow term for someone who visits the sick or those in trouble.
• Related来観者らいかんしゃWrittenWritten term for people who come to see an exhibition; used in venue statistics.
• Related来遊者らいゆうしゃWrittenWritten term for people who come to a place for pleasure; it is framed around the destination, as in visitors to a resort or region.
• Related客分きゃくぶんNeutralGuest treatment or guest status, as in 「客分として迎える」; 「客人」 is the visitor itself.
• Related過客かかくWrittenWritten, literary term for a traveller passing through.
• Antonym主人しゅじんNeutralThe head of a household who hosts and entertains guests; the counterpart of 「客人」.
• Antonym主あるじWrittenWritten word for the master of a house or shop who entertains guests; the counterpart of 「客人」.
• Antonym亭主ていしゅNeutralThe host — head of a household or master of a tea gathering; the counterpart of 「客人」.

Use 「客人」 for guests who visit your home, though it sounds slightly old-fashioned, as in 「客人をもてなす」. In everyday speech say 「お客さん」; shops use the honorific 「お客様」; for guests at a ceremony say 「来賓」. The opposite is 「主人」.

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1. （きゃくじん）客きゃくとして来くる人ひと。