HSK 4 · Work

售货员 shòuhuòyuán “salesperson” in Chinese

Traditional 售貨員

What 售货员 means

  1. salesperson
  2. sales clerk
  3. sales associate
  4. retail salesperson

How to say 售货员

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale售shòu4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale货huò4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale员yuán2nd tone, rising

售货员 in a sentence

  1. 售货员问我要什么颜色的。

    Shòuhuòyuán wèn wǒ yào shénme yánsè de.

    The shop assistant asked me what colour I wanted.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我姐姐在一家书店当售货员。

    Wǒ jiějie zài yì jiā shūdiàn dāng shòuhuòyuán.

    My older sister works as a shop assistant in a bookshop.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 售货员 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 售 (shòu) with each of its parts in a different colour
售shòuto sell; to retail
  • 隹short-tailed bird · zhuī
  • 口mouth · kǒu
The character 货 (huò) with each of its parts in a different colour
货huògoods
  • 化to change · huàSound part
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 化 (huà) hints at the sound. Compare it with huò.

The character 员 (yuán) with each of its parts in a different colour
员yuánperson engaged in a certain field
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part

How to write 售货员

售 11 strokes · 货 8 strokes · 员 7 strokes

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售货员 (shòuhuòyuán) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 售货员 (shòuhuòyuán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 售货员

Words with 售

销售xiāoshòu · to sell

Words with 货

货币huòbì · currency通货膨胀tōnghuòpéngzhàng · inflation

Words with 员

服务员fúwùyuán · waiter员yuán · (suffix) member运动员yùndòngyuán · athlete演员yǎnyuán · actor or actress人员rényuán · staff员工yuángōng · employee裁员cáiyuán · to cut staff委员wěiyuán · committee member成员chéngyuán · member动员dòngyuán · to mobilise

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律师lǜshī · lawyer生意shēngyi · business师傅shīfu · master收入shōurù · income现金xiànjīn · cash演员yǎnyuán · actor or actress应聘yìngpìn · to apply for a job招聘zhāopìn · to invite applications for a job

FAQs

售货员 (shòuhuòyuán) means “salesperson” or “sales clerk”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it shòuhuòyuán: shòu with a 4th tone, then huò with a 4th tone, then yuán with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 售货员 is written 售貨員. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shouhuoyuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 售货员 from the suggestions. Typing shouhuoyuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
售货员 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.