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Kanji Information Sheet for 員 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info: 口 (くち) – mouth
Henshall Mnemonic: official members always talk of money
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #54 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #54 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N4 Words
- 店員 [てんいん]
(n) shop assistant; employee; clerk; salesperson [K] [D] [Jisho] - 公務員 [こうむいん]
(n) government worker; public (civil) servant [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N3 Words
- 議員 [ぎいん]
(n) member of the Diet, congress or parliament [K] [D] [Jisho] - 事務員 [じむいん]
(n) clerk [K] [D] [Jisho] - 会員 [かいいん]
(n) member; the membership [K] [D] [Jisho] - 全員 [ぜんいん]
(n-adv,n) all members (unanimity); all hands; the whole crew [K] [D] [Jisho] - 委員 [いいん]
(n) committee member [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
- 定員 [ていいん]
(n) fixed number of regular personnel; capacity (of boat, hall, aeroplane, etc.) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 満員 [まんいん]
(n) full house; no vacancy; sold out; standing room only; full (of people); crowded [K] [D] [Jisho] - 工員 [こういん]
(n) factory worker [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 職員 [しょくいん]
(n) staff member; personnel [K] [D] [Jisho] - 従業員 [じゅうぎょういん]
(n) employee; worker [K] [D] [Jisho] - 動員 [どういん]
(n,vs) mobilization [K] [D] [Jisho] - 行員 [こういん]
(n) bank clerk [K] [D] [Jisho] - 教員 [きょういん]
(n) teaching staff [K] [D] [Jisho] - 員 [いん]
(n,n-suf) member [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 隊員 [たいいん]
(n) group members [K] [D] [Jisho] - 議院運営委員会 [ぎいんうんえいいいんかい]
House Steering Committee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 教職員 [きょうしょくいん]
(n) teaching staff; faculty [K] [D] [Jisho] - 要員 [よういん]
(n) essential member; necessary person; personnel [K] [D] [Jisho] - 減員 [げんいん]
(n,vs) reduction of staff [K] [D] [Jisho] - 工作員 [こうさくいん]
craftsman; handicraft worker [K] [D] [Jisho] - 総動員 [そうどういん]
(n) general mobilization [K] [D] [Jisho] - 署員 [しょいん]
(n) staff member; station employee; official [K] [D] [Jisho] - 地方公務員 [ちほうこうむいん]
local government employee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 特派員 [とくはいん]
(n) correspondent [K] [D] [Jisho] - 公正取引委員会 [こうせいとりひきいいんかい]
Fair Trade Commission [K] [D] [Jisho] - 一員 [いちいん]
(n) person; member [K] [D] [Jisho] - 部員 [ぶいん]
(n) staff; member [K] [D] [Jisho] - 社員 [しゃいん]
(n) company employee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 兵員 [へいいん]
(n) military strength; military personnel [K] [D] [Jisho] - 随員 [ずいいん]
(n) member of an entourage or retinue or party; attendant [K] [D] [Jisho] - 増員 [ぞういん]
(n) increase the number of personnel [K] [D] [Jisho] - 常任委員会 [じょうにんいいんかい]
(n) standing committee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国家公務員 [こっかこうむいん]
(n) government official [K] [D] [Jisho] - 船員 [せんいん]
(n) sailor [K] [D] [Jisho] - 客員 [きゃくいん]
(n) guest (associate) member [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国会議員 [こっかいぎいん]
(n) member of National Diet; Diet member [K] [D] [Jisho] - 研究員 [けんきゅういん]
researcher [K] [D] [Jisho] - 公安委員会 [こうあんいいんかい]
(n) public safety commission [K] [D] [Jisho] - 人員 [じんいん]
(n) number of persons; personnel [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.