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Personnel in Chinese

personnel · HSK 4

人员 rén yuán

  1. 人 rén person
  2. 员 yuán person

公司最近减少了人员。 The company recently cut its staff.

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How do you say personnel in Chinese?

Personnel in Chinese is 人员 (rén yuán). You can also say 员工 (yuán gōng), 人事 (rén shì).

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.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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