員 — member, employee, number

いん員 member

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes people work

U+54E1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #54 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #59 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

member
employee
number
the one in charge

word

いん in On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

員(いん) in member 委(い) 員(いん) iin committee member 全(ぜん) 員(いん) zenin all members 会(かい) 員(いん) kaiin member 社(しゃ) 員(いん) shain company employee 教(きょう) 員(いん) kyouin teaching staff 役(やく) 員(いん) yakuin board member 定(てい) 員(いん) teiin capacity

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

かい貝 shellfish #154

Used as component in (2)

そん損 damage いん韻 rhyme

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth