Chinese Character 員 Meanings and components.

Form

員

Meaning

員 meaning[3] in English

Person.

Employee.

Member.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 員 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and surname Bei (貝)

Its radical[1] is: 口 (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .口kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RBUC

How to write 員

To write員yuan2person you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 貝bei4surname Bei arranged in a 吕 shape:

口 + 貝 = 員

員 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 員 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 員, looks as follow:

員
Pinyin:yuan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Person . Employee . Member
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
貝
Pinyin:bei4
Meaning[3]: Surname Bei
目
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title
八
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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