漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
員: employee, member
Also: number, the one in charge
JLPT N410 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
口 carries the meaning · 貝 is drawn in
10 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
インin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 社員しゃいんcompany employee
- 店員てんいんsalesperson
- 職員しょくいんstaff member
- 議員ぎいんmember of congress
- 委員いいんcommittee member
- 全員ぜんいんall members
- 満員まんいんfull, crowded [n.]
- 定員ていいんfixed number, capacity
- 会社員かいしゃいんcompany employee
- 公務員こうむいんpublic (civil) servant
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)〇 circle (sound) + 鼎 ding (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 員 (rev. 92200132), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Open your mouth wide and what do you see? A simple, sturdy square!”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 员 · traditional, as in Japanese · yuán
Japan keeps the traditional form 員; mainland China simplifies it to 员.
- Simplified
- 员 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 員 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yuán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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