Shareables · HSK 6 · 形 · Easy to confuse
形近 · Characters that look like 员
员 next to 页、负、贯 — one stroke apart, nothing else in common.
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员yuánperson/employee/member
形近字 · LOOK ALIKE, READ DIFFERENTLY
Same shape at a glance. Different sound, different meaning.
| Character | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 员 | yuán | person/employee/member |
| 页 | yè | page/leaf/(xié) "head" radical in Chinese characters (rare, archaic) |
| 负 | fù | to bear/to carry (on one's back)/to turn one's back on/to be defeated/negative (math. etc) |
| 贯 | guàn | to pierce through/to pass through/to be stringed together/string of 1000 cash |
| 贞 | zhēn | chaste |
| 贤 | xián | worthy or virtuous person/honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation |
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