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Employee in Chinese

employee · HSK 5

员工 yuán gōng

  1. 员 yuán person
  2. 工 gōng work

Counted with 名: 一名员工 yì míng yuángōng

这家公司有两百名员工。 This company has two hundred employees.

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How do you say employee in Chinese?

Employee in Chinese is 员工 (yuán gōng). You can also say 职工 (zhí gōng).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

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