員工 (jyun4 gung1 | yuan2 gong1) : staff; personnel; workpeople

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員工

jyun4 gung1

yuan2 gong1

staff; personnel; workpeople

Level: 3 Google Frequency: 5,350,000

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

員工 / 员工

This word has been viewed 3919 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 30th Aug 2005 21:27 and last edited on 26th Apr 2014 16:10

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Characters in this word:

員 jyun4 - personnel; staff; member
工 gung1 - labour; work

3 compounds containing this word:

員工福利 - employee welfare
Common Formations:
員工宿舍 - dormitory
一線員工 - worker at the production line

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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]

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

佢哋開緊會﹐好快就會決定數千員工嘅命運。粵
They are holding a meeting which would soon decide the fate of thousands of employees.
[The second part of this sentence is a relative clause. The Cantonese clause differs from the English one by omitting the relative pronoun "which". ]

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