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Character #186 · The First 1000
员 (員) yuán meaning: employee
person engaged in a certain field of activity; member; classifier for military generals
- Strokes
- 710
- TraditionalSimplified
- 員 员
- Poster cell
- R7
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02 练习纸
Free printable · One page
Practice writing 员員
Write 员員 in the grey model box at the start of each row and its pinyin, yuán, on the lines above. Then copy it across the row, following the stroke order above.
Nine rows of field-grid squares, 15 mm. More about this sheet 03 千字海报
04 问答
Quick answers
- What does 员 mean in English?
- 员 (yuán) means "employee": person engaged in a certain field of activity; member; classifier for military generals.
- How do you pronounce 员?
- 员 is pronounced yuán in pinyin, with the second (rising) tone. In Zhuyin (bopomofo) it is written ㄩㄢˊ.
- How many strokes does 员 have?
- The simplified form, 员, has 7 strokes. The traditional form, 員, has 10.
- What is the traditional form of 员?
- The traditional form of 员 is 員. 员 is the simplified form, used in mainland China and Singapore; 員 is used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
- What are common words with 员?
- Common words that use 员 include 人员 (rényuán, staff), 成员 (chéngyuán, member), 队员 (duìyuán, team member), 演员 (yǎnyuán, actor or actress).
- How common is 员?
- 员 is number 186 of the 1,000 most common Chinese characters, in cell R7 of The First 1000 poster.
Definitions and word glosses adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License), animated with Hanzi Writer.