好客

hào kè · HSK 7

to treat guests well

🍵 好 (be fond of) + 客 (guest) = fond of guests = hospitable

好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'

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