员 (yuán) means Worker (employee - member). Below are 24 of the 64 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
老板对 员 工很好。
Lǎobǎn duì yuángōng hěn hǎo.
The boss treats the staff well.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 老板
她在商店当售货 员 。
Tā zài shāngdiàn dāng shòuhuòyuán.
She works as a shop assistant.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 售货员
工作人 员 正在准备。
Gōngzuò rényuán zhèngzài zhǔnbèi.
The staff are getting things ready.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 人员
所有人 员 都到齐了。
Suǒyǒu rényuán dōu dào qí le.
All the personnel have arrived.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 人员
公司有三百名 员 工。
Gōngsī yǒu sānbǎi míng yuángōng.
The company has three hundred employees.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 员工
医生连夜抢救伤 员 。
Yīshēng liányè qiǎngjiù shāngyuán.
The doctors worked through the night to save the injured.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 抢救
新成 员 在会上宣誓。
Xīn chéngyuán zài huì shang xuān shì.
The new members took an oath at the meeting.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 宣誓
饭店里有很多服务 员 。
Fàndiàn lǐ yǒu hěn duō fúwùyuán.
There are many waiters in the restaurant.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 服务员
服务 员 对客人很热情。
Fúwùyuán duì kèrén hěn rèqíng.
The waiters are very warm towards the guests.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 客人
她是一名年轻的演 员 。
Tā shì yì míng niánqīng de yǎnyuán.
She is a young actress.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 演员
公司年底给 员 工分红。
Gōngsī niándǐ gěi yuángōng fēn hóng.
The company pays staff a bonus at the end of the year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 分红
演 员 们正在后台化妆。
Yǎnyuánmen zhèngzài hòutái huà zhuāng.
The actors are putting on their make-up backstage.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 化妆
他因贿赂官 员 被判刑。
Tā yīn huìlù guānyuán bèi pànxíng.
He was sentenced for bribing officials.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贿赂
他被选为学生会委 员 。
Tā bèi xuǎn wéi xuéshēnghuì wěiyuán.
He was elected a member of the student union committee.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 委员
委 员 会将于下周开会。
Wěiyuánhuì jiāng yú xià zhōu kāihuì.
The committee will meet next week.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 委员
服务 员 ，请给我一杯茶。
Fúwùyuán, qǐng gěi wǒ yì bēi chá.
Waiter, please bring me a cup of tea.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 服务员
服务 员 ，请给我们菜单。
Fúwùyuán, qǐng gěi wǒmen càidān.
Waiter, could we have the menu please?
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 菜单
这家店的售货 员 很热情。
Zhè jiā diàn de shòuhuòyuán hěn rèqíng.
The shop assistants here are very friendly.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 售货员
这个演 员 在国内很有名。
Zhège yǎnyuán zài guónèi hěn yǒumíng.
This actor is very famous at home.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 演员
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From the graded readers
她把手机交给了图书馆的工作人 员 。
tā bǎshǒu jī jiāogěi le / liǎo / liào túshūguǎn de / dì gōngzuò rényuán.
She'd handed it in to the library staff.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
爸爸问：“多少钱？”服务 员 说：“八十块。”
bàba wèn:" duōshao qián?" fúwùyuán shuō:" bāshí kuài."
Dad asked, "How much is it?" The waiter said, "Eighty yuan."
Graded reader · HSK 1 · At the Restaurant
From the travel phrasebook
员 appears in 64 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 员
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 员
How is 员 used in a sentence?
This page shows 64 sentences using 员 (yuán, "Worker (employee - member)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 员 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 员 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 员?
The dictionary page for 员 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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