教职员 (jiào zhí yuán) — teaching and administrative staff; faculty and staff

Definition

noun
teaching and administrative stafffaculty and staff
Measure word · 位

Examples

  • 教职员。
    Zhè suǒ dà xué de jiào zhí yuán yǒu sān bǎi duō rén.
    This university has over three hundred faculty and staff.
  • 教职员。
    jiào zhí yuán Zhèng zài kāi huì tǎo lùn xīn de jiào xué jì huà.
    The faculty and staff are in a meeting discussing the new teaching plan.
  • 教职员。
    Xué xiào wèi jiào zhí yuán tí gōng le miǎn fèi de jiàn kāng jiǎn chá.
    The school provided free health checks for the faculty and staff.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

教职teaching and administrative work
教jiàoteaching职zhíadministrative work
联合Side by side
员yuánmember

教 means teaching and 职 means administrative work; 员 means member, so they name people doing these jobs.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
子子zǐchild
攵Written in full as攴pūteaching cane; stick that represents authority
Sound part声符shēngfú
爻
爻yáo教jiào
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

教 uses 爻 for its sound and puts 子 (child) with 攵 (攴), a teaching cane, to show teaching a child.

Open 教 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 職; 职 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
耳耳ěrear
Sound part声符shēngfú
戠
戠zhí職zhí
Same sound today

The traditional form 職 pairs 耳 (ear) with 戠, which gives its sound; the simplified 职 is a shorthand, so its parts are not the historical parts.

Open 职 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 員; 员 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
鼎鼎dǐngding
Sound part声符shēngfú
〇
〇líng員yuán
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In the traditional form 員, 〇 supplies the sound and 鼎 supplies the meaning; the simplified 员 is a shortened form.

Open 员 →

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