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公务员

gōngwùyuán

civil servant

HSK 3 · Topic “Work and jobs”
An office clerk at a desk
Memory picture

Characters in this word

公 gōng

Strokes
4
Radical
八 — eight
Made of
八 eight 厶 private, secret
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 公

员 yuán

Strokes
7
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
口 mouth 贝 sea shell
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 他是公务员。 Tā shì gōngwùyuán. He is a civil servant.
  • 我想当公务员。 Wǒ xiǎng dāng gōngwùyuán. I want to be a civil servant.
  • 公务员很忙。 Gōngwùyuán hěn máng. Civil servants are very busy.

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