Difference between 顾客, 客, 客户 and 客人

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

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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 chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/16776/… for difference between 顾客 and 客户 — user6065, Apr 21, 2017 at 16:57

OmniBus · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-22 14:35:22Z

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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).

answered Apr 22, 2017 at 14:35

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njj · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-21 17:23:48Z

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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.

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xenophōn · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-07 02:25:39Z

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answered May 31, 2017 at 13:14

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