HSK 5 · Work

员工 yuángōng “employee” in Chinese

Traditional 員工

What 员工 means

  1. employee
  2. staff
  3. personnel

How to say 员工

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale员yuán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale工gōng1st tone, high and level

员工 in a sentence

  1. 我们需要更多员工。

    Wǒmen xūyào gèng duō yuángōng.

    We need more staff.

    Sentence #6685115 from Tatoeba

  2. 所有的员工都回家了，只剩一位。

    Suǒyǒu de yuángōng dōu huíjiā le, zhǐ shèng yí wèi.

    All the staff have gone home except one.

    Sentence #604497 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这家公司允许它的员工在家办公。

    Zhè jiā gōngsī yǔnxǔ tā de yuángōng zàijiā bàngōng.

    This company lets its staff work from home.

    Sentence #13278140 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 员工 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 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
The character 工 (gōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
工gōngwork
  • 一one · yī
  • 丄above · shàng

Memory aidDrawn from a builder’s tool: work.

How to write 员工

员 7 strokes · 工 3 strokes

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

Words related to 员工

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裁员cáiyuán · to cut staff委员wěiyuán · committee member成员chéngyuán · member动员dòngyuán · to mobilise

Words with 工

工作gōngzuò · to work工作日gōngzuòrì · working day工资gōngzī · wages工厂gōngchǎng · factory打工dǎgōng · to work a casual or part-time job工人gōngrén · worker工业gōngyè · industry工具gōngjù · tool手工shǒugōng · handmade工程师gōngchéngshī · engineer

More words: Work & Career

销售xiāoshòu · to sell行业hángyè · trade业务yèwù · business营业yíngyè · to do business中介zhōngjiè · agency专家zhuānjiā · expert主任zhǔrèn · director资格zīgé · qualifications

FAQs

员工 (yuángōng) means “employee” or “staff”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yuángōng: yuán with a 2nd tone, then gōng with a 1st 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, 员工 is written 員工. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yuangong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 员工 from the suggestions. Typing yuangong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
员工 is an HSK 5 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.