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裁员

cái yuán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 裁員

裁员 (cái yuán) means "to cut staff; to lay off employees". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 裁员 means

1. to cut staff
2. to lay off employees

The characters in 裁员

• 裁cáito cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim
• 员yuán(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity; (bound form) member…

Example sentences

• 丰田公司宣布将会在今年裁员一千人。
  Fēngtián gōngsī xuānbù jiānghuì zài jīnnián cáiyuán yī qiān rén.
  Toyota Corporation announced that it would cut 1,000 positions this year.

Sounds the same

Read cái yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 财源financial resources; source of revenue

Where 裁员 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bù–cái (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cái yuán correctly.
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