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staff / crew / personnel / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
staff; personnel; employee
HSK 3
employee; staff member; worker
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *裁* | 裁* | *裁
to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment
HSK 7-9
white lab coat (worn by medical staff); (metonym) clinician; medical professional
to establish (a unit or department) / authorized staffing allocation in government or public institutions (excluding temporary or contract staff)
HSK 6
(Tw) associate technical specialist (a technical-staff rank in Taiwan's civil service)
(Tw) senior technical specialist (a technical-staff rank in Taiwan's civil service)
manpower / staff / human hand
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拐* | 拐* | *拐
cane / walking stick / crutch / old man's staff
HSK 6
servant / to employ sb for a job / to manage people / to be in need of staff
HSK 7-9
three-section staff (old-style weapon)
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
(Tw) assistant technical specialist (a technical-staff rank in Taiwan's civil service)
staff member
chief of staff
specialist / specialized staff
(music) staff / stave
all personnel; the whole staff
staff officer / to give advice
HSK 7-9
to dispatch (vehicles, staff etc) / to schedule / to manage / dispatcher / scheduler
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well; to get burned both romantically and financially
men and horses / troops / group of people / troop / staff / centaur
hotel staff work unit tasked with keeping the public areas of a hotel clean
technical staff
teaching and administrative staff
(Tw) staff; clerk; employee (of a bank 銀行|银行 or commercial firm 商行)
teaching and administrative staff
(of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained
HSK 7-9
office worker / staff member / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
(of personnel or positions) having permanent status under China's official staffing system 編制|编制, with full benefits and job security
scientific and technical staff
the staff of a Buddhist monk
HSK 7-9
half-mast / half-staff
to dispatch personnel; to send staff (to perform a task or attend an event)
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
having a permanent post / part of the official staff
Buddha's teaching / Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc / (Daoism) magic weapon / talisman / fig. specially effective device / magic wand
club; staff; stick
enterprise with no premises, capital or regular staff
to set up a stall / (fig.) to maintain a large staff and organization
to meet (or pick up) sb arriving by plane / (of airport staff) to deal with the arrival of a plane
shopper's guide / shop assistant / sales staff
to cut staff / to lay off employees
(neologism c. 2013) organized disruption of healthcare facilities or verbal and physical abuse of medical staff by an aggrieved patient or proxies such as family members or hired thugs, typically aimed at obtaining compensation
teaching and administrative staff
senior staff officer; staff officer of great talent
miscellaneous troops; irregular troops; troops of varied allegiances / uncertified staff
to make more youthful / to promote younger staff
Welcome! (used by staff to greet customers when they enter a shop or restaurant)
(military) Chief of Staff
surveyor's rod / staff / staff gauge / rear sight
authorized number of employees; staff quota
staff sergeant
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
(Buddhism) khakkhara; staff topped with metal rings, traditionally carried by Buddhist monks
to suffer losses; to lose (some of one's reputation, one's fleet, one's staff etc)
(service industry) reception staff
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杖* | 杖* | *杖
a staff / a rod / cane / walking stick / to flog with a stick (old)
magic staff
clerical work in the office; office work / office staff; clerk
housekeeping staff
steel staff / steel stick
(military) General Staff Headquarters
army Chief of Staff
staff; rod
to cut staff; to lay off employees
excess personnel; superfluous staff
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *筇* | 筇* | *筇
(in ancient texts) type of bamboo sometimes used as a staff
rules for political staff / political discipline
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *殳* | 殳* | *殳
ancient staff-like weapon made of bamboo or wood / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in , , 殺|杀 etc
mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety
turnover (of staff)


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