Word Meaning 部員

ぶいん buin

部員 is read as ぶいん (buin) and means staff.

Meaning

English

  1. staff
  2. member (club, society, etc.)

Reading

Kana

ぶいん

Romaji

buin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 21 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 10184 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

部長

ぶちょう

head (chief, director) of a section or department

部分

ぶぶん

portion

部品

ぶひん

parts

部下

ぶか

subordinate person

部屋

へや

stable

部首

ぶしゅ

radical (of a kanji character)

部会

ぶかい

section meeting

部内

ぶない

the staff

部数

ぶすう

number of copies

counter for copies of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.

部族

ぶぞく

tribe

部落

ぶらく

burakumin area

Example Sentences

8

Do you belong to the baseball club?

Bill is on the editorial staff.

I'm in the tennis club.

I'm a member of the swimming club.

John belongs to the swimming club.

Well there aren't any other positions left. After that, all that is left is basic member.

With all the kerfuffle since this morning I'd almost forgotten but we've still got the problem of the club members haven't we?

There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.