Illustration: Inside a Japanese metalworking factory, a worker in a plain work jacket and cap stands at a bench beside a guarded belt-driven machine. He carefully fits identical metal handles onto a row of kettle bodies, with trays of matching parts feeding his station.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

工こう員いん

kouin

factory worker

An older term for a factory worker. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

彼かれは新あたらしい工員こういんを採用さいようした。
He hired some new workers.
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父ちちは若わかいころ、工員こういんとして働はたらいていた。
My father worked as a factory worker when he was young.
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昼休ひるやすみになると、工員こういんたちは食堂しょくどうに集あつまる。
At lunchtime, the factory workers gather in the cafeteria.
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Kanji in 工員

工craft; constructionOnコウ・ク・グ
員employee; memberOnイン

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