Chinese symbol for “librarian”
图书馆员
tú shū guǎn yuán
Traditional: 圖書館員
librarian
The closest CC-CEDICT match for librarian is 图书馆员 (tú shū guǎn yuán), defined as: librarian.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “librarian”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 图书馆员.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 图片 (圖片) | tú piàn | picture; photograph; 张 (zhāng) |
| 地图 (地圖) | dì tú | map; 张 (zhāng),本 (běn) |
| 试图 (試圖) | shì tú | to attempt; to try |
| 图书馆 (圖書館) | tú shū guǎn | library; measure word: 家 (jiā), 个 (gè) |
| 企图 (企圖) | qǐ tú | to attempt; to try |
| 图像 (圖像) | tú xiàng | image; picture; graphic |
| 书记 (書記) | shū ji | secretary (head of a Communist Party or Communist Youth League organization); clerk; scribe |
| 秘书 (秘書) | mì shū | secretary |
| 博物馆 (博物館) | bó wù guǎn | museum |
| 委员会 (委員會) | wěi yuán huì | committee; commission |
See also: Japanese symbol for “librarian”.
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.