员工

Character by character

• 员yuán7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 員member; personnel, staff member
• 工gōng3 strokesHSK 1labor, work; worker, laborer

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 我们需要更多员工。

  Wǒ men xū yào gèng duō yuán gōng

  We need more staff.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 员工. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 工作gōng zuòHSK 1

  to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task

• 人员rén yuánHSK 3

  staff; crew; personnel

• 成员chéng yuánHSK 3

  member

• 演员yǎn yuánHSK 3

  actor or actress; performer

• 委员会wěi yuán huìHSK 7

  committee

• 队员duì yuánHSK 3

  team member

• 员yuánHSK 3

  person; employee; member

• 工具gōng jùHSK 3

  tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)

• 工人gōng rénHSK 1

  worker

• 球员qiú yuánHSK 6

  (ball sports) player; team member

• 工资gōng zīHSK 3

  wages; pay

• 工程gōng chéngHSK 4

  engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking

• 工厂gōng chǎngHSK 3

  factory

• 官员guān yuánHSK 7

  official (in an organization or government); administrator

• 运动员yùn dòng yuánHSK 4

  athlete

• 工业gōng yèHSK 3

  industry

• 会员huì yuánHSK 3

  member

• 议员yì yuánHSK 7

  member (of a legislative body); representative

• 打工dǎ gōngHSK 2

  to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation

• 开工kāi gōngHSK 7

  to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job

• 服务员fú wù yuánHSK 3

  waiter; waitress; attendant; customer service personnel

• 工程师gōng chéng shīHSK 3

  engineer

• 人工rén gōngHSK 3

  artificial; manpower; manual work

• 工会gōng huìHSK 7

  labor union; trade union