Japanese symbol for “clientele”
客層
きゃくそう
Romaji: kyakusou
clientele; customer stratum
In Japanese, clientele is 客層, read きゃくそう (kyakusou).
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Meanings
- n clientele; customer stratum
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “clientele”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 得意先 | とくいさき tokuisaki | (regular) customer; client; patron |
| 客筋 | きゃくすじ kyakusuji | clientele |
| 客種 | きゃくだね kyakudane | clientele |
| 顧客層 | こきゃくそう kokyakusou | customer base; constituency; customer segment |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 顧客 | こきゃく kokyaku | customer; client; patron |
| 観客 | かんきゃく kankyaku | spectator; audience |
| 乗客 | じょうきゃく joukyaku | passenger |
| 客観 | きゃっかん kyakkan | objectivity; objective; object (philosophical) |
| 客室 | きゃくしつ kyakushitsu | guest room (at a hotel); guest cabin (on a boat); passenger cabin (on a plane) |
| 客席 | きゃくせき kyakuseki | guest seating (e.g. theater, stadium); passenger seat (e.g. taxi) |
| 一層 | いっそう issou | even more; still more; all the more |
| 高層 | こうそう kousou | high-rise (building); multistory; multistoried |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.