員
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Origin of the character
形声。「鼎」（丸口の）+音符「〇」。「まるい」を意味する漢語｛圓｝を表す字。もと「〇」が｛圓｝を表す字であったが、「鼎」を加えた。のち仮借して「人々」を意味する漢語｛員｝に用いる。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
employee, member, number, the one in charge
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- インElem.
- Nanori (used in names)
- いな
- かず
- Other languages
- 拼音yuan2
- 拼音yun2
- 拼音yun4
- 한글weon
- Hán-ViệtViên
- Hán-ViệtVân
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 10 strokes
- Radical
- 口(くち)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 3
- Unicode
U+54E1
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱口貝
Words using this kanji
- 員数いんずう人員やものの数、特に定員・定数などが決まっているもの。(total) number (of people or things), count, quota
- 員いんmember
- 員外いんがいnon-membership
- 員名いんめいmember name
- 員に備わるのみいんにそなわるのみbeing a member of staff but useless as a worker
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Lookup codes
- SKIP
2-3-7- Four Corner
6080.6- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3d7.10- Heisig
- 59
- Nelson
- 928