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员工

yuángōng

employee

HSK 3 · Topic “Work and jobs”
An employee carrying a clipboard
Memory picture

Characters in this word

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

工 gōng

Strokes
3
Radical
工 — labor, work
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 工

Example phrases

  • 员工在开会。 Yuángōng zài kāihuì. The employees are in a meeting.
  • 新员工来了。 Xīn yuángōng lái le. The new employee has arrived.
  • 这里员工很多。 Zhèlǐ yuángōng hěn duō. There are many employees here.

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