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お客様 (okyakusama) Japanese meaning: guest | Kotomora
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げん
関かん
で
お
待ま
ち
です
。
The guest is waiting at the entrance.
I will show the hotel guest to their room.
Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 にお 客きゃく 様さま がいらっしゃる a customer/guest comes to a place (honorific)
A customer came to the store.
お 客きゃく 様さま を 迎むか える to welcome/receive a guest or customer
All the staff welcomed the guests with smiles.
お 客きゃく 様さま に 対たい 応おう する to attend to / deal with a customer
My job is to attend to customers at the reception desk.
お 客きゃく 様さま をお 待ま たせする to make a customer wait
お 客きゃく 様さま のご 要よう 望ぼう にお 応こた えする to respond to a customer's request
Kanji 客 guest, visitor, customer Politeness お客さん is the everyday polite way to refer to a customer, while お客様 is the more formal, elevated honorific used in stores and businesses.
お客様 is the polite, honorific way to refer to or address a customer directly, while カスタマー is a neutral business term used mainly in internal or written contexts.
Written forms お 客きゃく 様さま
Standard polite spelling with honorific お～様.
お 客きゃく さま
Common kana-mixed spelling, slightly softer in tone.
Etymology Formed from 客 (きゃく, 'guest/customer') with the honorific prefix お and suffix 様 (さま), yielding a highly respectful term.
I'm very sorry, but we are keeping our customers waiting.
We want to meet our customers' requests as much as possible.
