会社員
かいしゃいん
hepburn kaishain
company employee, office worker
Part of speech · noun
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Examples
- 父は会社員です。My father is a company employee.
- 会社員生活は忙しいです。Office worker life is busy.
Collocations
会社員 (kaishain, company employee)サラリーマン (sarariiman, salaried worker — masculine)OL (oo eru, office lady — feminine)社員 (shain, employee — short)正社員 (seishain, permanent employee)
Mnemonic
会社員 kaishain — 会社 + 員 (member). Japanese labor lexicon layers: 会社員 (neutral/formal), サラリーマン (sarariiman, masculine salaryman, a wasei-eigo loan), OL (oo eru, office lady, feminine), 社員 (internal shorthand), 正社員 (seishain, permanent), 非正規 (hiseiki, non-regular). The 終身雇用 (lifetime employment) and 新卒 (new-graduate hiring) systems map onto this vocabulary — labor words compress Japan's social structure. PATCH-4 v3 takeaway: knowing the synonym layers nails register.
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