손님
sonnim · TOPIK 1
guest, customer
🛎️ 손님 = 손 (guest) + 님 (honoured): an honoured guest
손 is the native Korean word for a visitor, and 님 is the respect suffix also heard in 선생님 (teacher). Korean attaches the honorific by default, so a guest or a shop customer is always addressed politely as 손님.