Definition
职员 (zhíyuán) refers to a staff member or office worker in a company or organization, emphasizing the individual's role as an employee. It is more specific than 人员 (rén yuán, 'personnel'), which is a general collective term for staff, and less formal than 员工 (yuán gōng, 'employee'), which is the standard term for any worker in a business context.
noun
staff memberoffice worker
Measure word · 个, 位
Easily confused
- 支援zhī yuánsound-aliketo support, to assist, to provide aid
- 志愿zhì yuànsound-alike(noun) aspiration; ambition; (college) preference
Examples
- 职员。Wǒmen bùmén yǒu èrshí duō gè zhí yuán.Our department has more than twenty staff members.
- 职员。Nà wèi xīn zhí yuán zuò shì hěn rènzhēn.That new staff member works very carefully.
- 职员。Gōngsī gěi měi wèi zhí yuán fā le niánzhōngjiǎng.The company gave every staff member a year-end bonus.
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