| 员 | yuán | person; employee; member |
| 委员 | wěi yuán | committee member; committee; council; CL:个 |
| 运动员 | yùn dòng yuán | athlete; CL:名,个 |
| 委员长 | wěi yuán zhǎng | head of a committee |
| 委员会 | wěi yuán huì | committee |
| 会员 | huì yuán | member |
| 中央委员会 | zhōng yāng wěi yuán huì | Central Committee |
| 团员 | tuán yuán | member; group member |
| 指战员 | zhǐ zhàn yuán | PLA commanders and fighters |
| 指导员 | zhǐ dǎo yuán | instructor; coach; political instructor (in the PLA) |
| 职员 | zhí yuán | office worker; staff member; CL:个,位 |
| 驾驶员 | jià shǐ yuán | pilot; driver |
| 教员 | jiào yuán | teacher; instructor; CL:个 |
| 技术员 | jì shù yuán | technician; CL:个 |
| 飞行员 | fēi xíng yuán | pilot; aviator |
| 炊事员 | chuī shì yuán | cook; kitchen worker |
| 会员国 | huì yuán guó | member nation |
| 复员 | fù yuán | to demobilize; demobilization |
| 政治委员 | zhèng zhì wěi yuán | political commissar (during Russian and Chinese communist revolutions) |
| 裁判员 | cái pàn yuán | referee |
| 司令员 | sī lìng yuán | commander |
| 服务员 | fú wù yuán | waiter; waitress; attendant; customer service personnel; CL:个 |
| 通讯员 | tōng xùn yuán | correspondent; reporter; messenger boy |
| 船员 | chuán yuán | sailor; crew member |
| 海员 | hǎi yuán | sailor; mariner |
| 伤员 | shāng yuán | wounded person |
| 辅导员 | fǔ dǎo yuán | a coach (teacher or trainer) |
| 参议员 | cān yì yuán | senator |
| 员工 | yuán gōng | staff; personnel; employee |
| 勤务员 | qín wù yuán | odd job man; army orderly |
| 幅员 | fú yuán | a country's surface area; extent of a country |
| 大员 | dà yuán | high official |
| 研究员 | yán jiū yuán | researcher |
| 专员 | zhuān yuán | assistant director; commissioner |
| 店员 | diàn yuán | shop assistant; salesclerk; salesperson |
| 雇员 | gù yuán | employee |
| 教职员 | jiào zhí yuán | teaching and administrative staff |
| 定员 | dìng yuán | fixed complement (of crew, passengers etc) |
| 伤病员 | shāng bìng yuán | the sick and the wounded |
| 公务员 | gōng wù yuán | functionary; office-bearer |
| 病员 | bìng yuán | sick personnel; person on the sick list; patient |
| 观察员 | guān chá yuán | observer |
| 随员 | suí yuán | attendant |
| 总动员 | zǒng dòng yuán | general mobilization (for war etc) |
| 随行人员 | suí xíng rén yuán | entourage; retinue |
| 兵员 | bīng yuán | soldiers; troops |
| 潜水员 | qián shuǐ yuán | frogman |
| 女服务员 | nǚ fú wù yuán | stewardess |
| 从业人员 | cóng yè rén yuán | employee; person employed in a trade or profession |
| 生员 | shēng yuán | scholar preparing for imperial examinations (in former times) |
