Firefighter in Chinese (Mandarin): 消防员 (xiāofángyuán)
消防员
xiāofángyuán
firefighter
- Simplified
- 消防员
- Traditional
- 消防員
- Pinyin
- xiāofángyuán
- Typed as
- xiaofangyuan
Use it in a sentence
消防员用水灭火。
消防員用水滅火。
The firefighter uses water to put out fires.
The characters in 消防员
消
To put out. 氵 (water) is on the left.
10 strokes
防
To guard against.
6 strokes
员 / 員
Someone who does a job.
7 strokes
消防 is fighting fires, and 员 makes it a job, as in 服务员 (fúwùyuán, waiter). A fire truck is 消防车 (xiāofángchē).
More examples with 消防员
消防员很勇敢。
消防員很勇敢。
Xiāofángyuán hěn yǒnggǎn.
Firefighters are brave.
消防员开着消防车。
消防員開著消防車。
Xiāofángyuán kāizhe xiāofángchē.
The firefighter drives a fire truck.
How to write 消防员 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
消 10 strokes
防 6 strokes
员 7 strokes
In Traditional characters:
員 10 strokes
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