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作客

zuò kè

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

作客 (zuò kè) means "to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 作客 means

1. to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn

The characters in 作客

• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 客kècustomer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)

Example sentences

• 昨天，我去我叔叔家作客。
  Zuótiān, wǒqù wǒ shūshu jiā zuòkè.
  I called at my uncle's house yesterday.

Sounds the same

Read zuò kè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 做客to be a guest or visitor

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zuò kè correctly.
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