Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
员
These are the forms of 員, the traditional character: 员 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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FSI人员：“长官，有一个网站，任何人都可以加上一个外国语言的句子！“。FSI主席：“什么？ 炸掉他们！“。
FSI officer: "Sir, there is a website where ANYONE can add a sentence in a foreign language!". FSI president: "What?! Bomb them!".
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全体销售人员通宵达旦地工作了一周。
The entire sales staff has worked around the clock for a week.
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对计算机人员来说，断网的时候度日如年。
For computer people, days are like years without the internet.
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援救人员为了找到孩子，仔细搜索了那个区域。
The rescue worker searched the area, looking for the child.
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非工作人员禁止入内。
Entry is strictly for staff only.