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售货员

shòuhuòyuán

shop assistant

HSK 4 · Topic “Work and jobs”
A shop assistant serving a customer
Memory picture

Characters in this word

售 shòu

Strokes
11
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
隹 short-tailed bird 口 mouth
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 售

货 huò

Strokes
8
Radical
贝 — sea shell
Made of
化 to change, to convert, to reform 贝 sea shell
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

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

  • 售货员很忙。 Shòu huò yuán hěn máng. The shop assistant is very busy.
  • 我问售货员。 Wǒ wèn shòu huò yuán. I ask the shop assistant.
  • 售货员在笑。 Shòu huò yuán zài xiào. The shop assistant is smiling.

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