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staff / crew / personnel / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
staff; personnel; employee
HSK 3
employee; staff member; worker
HSK 3
to establish (a unit or department) / authorized staffing allocation in government or public institutions (excluding temporary or contract staff)
HSK 6
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  *拐* | 拐* | *拐
cane / walking stick / crutch / old man's staff
HSK 6
to dispatch (vehicles, staff etc) / to schedule / to manage / dispatcher / scheduler
HSK 7-9
(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
staff officer / to give advice
HSK 7-9
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  *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
servant / to employ sb for a job / to manage people / to be in need of staff
HSK 7-9
office worker / staff member / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
manpower / staff / human hand
HSK 7-9
the staff of a Buddhist monk
HSK 7-9
hotel staff work unit tasked with keeping the public areas of a hotel clean
surveyor's rod / staff / staff gauge / rear sight
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
(service industry) reception staff
to cut staff / to lay off employees
Buddha's teaching / Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc / (Daoism) magic weapon / talisman / fig. specially effective device / magic wand
housekeeping staff
all personnel; the whole staff
army Chief of Staff
(music) staff / stave
shopper's guide / shop assistant / sales staff
(of personnel or positions) having permanent status under China's official staffing system 編制|编制, with full benefits and job security
men and horses / troops / group of people / troop / staff / centaur
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  *杖* | 杖* | *杖
a staff / a rod / cane / walking stick / to flog with a stick (old)
clerical work in the office; office work / office staff; clerk
rules for political staff / political discipline
club; staff; stick
half-mast / half-staff
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  *筇* | 筇* | *筇
(in ancient texts) type of bamboo sometimes used as a staff
senior staff officer; staff officer of great talent
Welcome! (used by staff to greet customers when they enter a shop or restaurant)
monk's staff (Buddhism)
magic staff
to meet (or pick up) sb arriving by plane / (of airport staff) to deal with the arrival of a plane
staff member
to make more youthful / to promote younger staff
steel staff / steel stick
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
(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
chief of staff
(Tw) staff; clerk; employee (of a bank 銀行|银行 or commercial firm 商行)
teaching and administrative staff
(military) General Staff Headquarters
teaching and administrative staff
enterprise with no premises, capital or regular staff
having a permanent post / part of the official staff
teaching and administrative staff
scientific and technical staff
(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
staff; rod
miscellaneous troops; irregular troops; troops of varied allegiances / uncertified staff
mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety
specialist / specialized staff
to cut staff; to lay off employees
to suffer losses; to lose (some of one's reputation, one's fleet, one's staff etc)
three-section staff (old-style weapon)
staff sergeant
excess personnel; superfluous staff
technical staff
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
to set up a stall / (fig.) to maintain a large staff and organization
turnover (of staff)
(military) Chief of Staff


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