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Chinese symbol for “crew”

人员
rén yuán
Traditional: 人員
staff; crew; personnel; 个 (gè)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for crew is 人员 (rén yuán), defined as: staff; crew; personnel; 个 (gè).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

人 rén
man, person; people
radical 9 ⼈ · 2 strokes
员 yuán
employee; member; personnel, staff
radical 30 ⼝ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “crew”

WordPinyinMeaning
全体人员 (全體人員)quán tǐ rén yuáncrew
乘组 (乘組)chéng zǔcrew (on board a spacecraft)
包承组 (包承組)bāo chéng zǔ(responsible) crew

Related words

Other words that share a character with 人员.

WordPinyinMeaning
人民rén mínthe people
人们 (人們)rén menpeople
有人yǒu rénsomeone; people
人口rén kǒupopulation; people
个人 (個人)gè rénan individual; oneself; (attributive) personal; one's own
委员会 (委員會)wěi yuán huìcommittee; commission
成员 (成員)chéng yuánmember
官员 (官員)guān yuánofficial (in an organization or government); administrator

See also: Japanese symbol for “crew”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.