HSK 6 · Work

委员 wěiyuán “committee member” in Chinese

Traditional 委員

What 委员 means

  1. committee member

How to say 委员

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale委wěi3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale员yuán2nd tone, rising

委员 in a sentence

  1. 委员会一个月召开两次。

    Wěiyuánhuì yí ge yuè zhàokāi liǎng cì.

    The committee meets twice a month.

    Sentence #1501760 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 为了调查物价，成立了一个委员会。

    Wèile diàochá wùjià, chénglì le yí ge wěiyuánhuì.

    A committee was set up to look into prices.

    Sentence #351235 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 委员会由四个成员组成。

    Wěiyuánhuì yóu sì ge chéngyuán zǔchéng.

    The committee is made up of four members.

    Sentence #784049 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 委员 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 委 (wěi) with each of its parts in a different colour
委wěito entrust
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 女woman · nǚ
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 委员

委 8 strokes · 员 7 strokes

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

Words related to 委员

Words with 委

委屈wěiqu · to feel wronged委托wěituō · to entrust

Words with 员

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

More words: Work & Career

提拔tíbá · to promote (to a higher post)徒弟túdì · apprentice外行wàiháng · layman委托wěituō · to entrust下属xiàshǔ · subordinate协调xiétiáo · to coordinate协议xiéyì · agreement薪水xīnshui · salary

FAQs

委员 (wěiyuán) means “committee member”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wěiyuán: wěi with a 3rd 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, 委员 is written 委員. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weiyuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 委员 from the suggestions. Typing weiyuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
委员 is an HSK 6 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.