員 (jyun4 wan4 wan6 | yuan2 yun2 yun4) : personnel; staff member

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員

jyun4 wan4 wan6

yuan2 yun2 yun4

[1] [n] member (of an organization, etc.); personnel; staff member [2] a person engaged in some field of activity [3] outer limits (of land, space, etc.)

Stroke count: 10

Level: 3

Radical: 口 (#30)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

員 / 员

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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委員會 wai2 jyun4 wui6*2 wei3 yuan2 hui4 = committee, commission

委員 wai2 jyun4 wei3 yuan2 = committee member / members

服務員 fuk6 mou6 jyun4 fu2 wu4 yuan2 = waiter; server

售票員 sau6 piu3 jyun4 shou4 piao4 yuan2 = ticket seller

傷員 soeng1 jyun4 shang1 yuan2 = wounded person(s)

售貨員 sau6 fo3 jyun4 shou1 huo4 yuan2 = salesperson

社員 se5 jyun4 she4 yuan2 = society or association member

人員 jan4 jyun4 ren2 yuan2 = staff; personnel

運動員 wan6 dung6 jyun4 yun4 dong4 yuan2 = an athlete

議員 ji5 jyun4 yi4 yuan2 = member of a legislative assembly
See all 209 compounds (CantoDict reports 241 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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佢用把刀插入個員工粵
He used a knife to stab the worker.
[lit. he use [counter] knife enter-in [counter] worker. Std. Chinese: 他用一把利刀刺入一位員工]

乘務員用剪票夾在我們的車票上打孔。國
The train conductor punched our tickets.

消防員救出被困電梯內嘅三人。粵
Fire fighters rescued three people trapped inside a lift.

呢一帶嘅房屋受員工青睞粵
The workers favour houses in this area.

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Decimal representation of this word: 員
Unicode code for this character: U+54E1 (off-site link)

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