会社員

Kanji breakdown

• 会 (huì) · 6 strokes

  Simplified form of 會. Phonosemantic compound. 合 represents the meaning and 𡆧 represents the sound.

• 社 (shè) · 7 strokes

  Originally depicted a god (礻) of the soil (土). The meaning later shifted to "shrine", "congregation", and "society".

• 員 (yuán) · 10 strokes

  Depicts the round opening (口) of a cooking pot (鼎). Based on the original meaning "round", now written as 圓. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Example sentences

1. 会社員です。 — I'm an office worker.
2. 私は会社員です。 — I am an office worker.
3. 私の父は会社員です。 — My father is an office worker.
4. 私は学生ですが、兄は会社員です。 — I am a student, but my older brother is a company employee.
5. 彼は会社員です。 — He is an office worker.

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