Character Details
| member; employee | Ascii: 26381 | w181 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 员 | yuán | yoo:en | 2 | 口 (mouth) + 贝 (shell) → member | 员 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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An employee (member of the company) has to keep his mouth shut if he wants to keep his job and continue making clams (money). | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Waiter, could I get the bill, please? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 115 - 衤 | yī | cat | clothes (side) | left‑side clothing | 补 被 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 口 (mouth) + 贝 (shell) → member | 口 (semantic) | 贝 (phonetic) | phonetic from 贝 | ||||||||