客人
kèrén · HSK 2
visitor
🧳 客人 = guest + person
客 means guest or visitor, 人 means person — together they literally spell out 'guest-person', i.e. someone visiting from outside. Also covers 'customer' or 'client' in commercial contexts.
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.