店員

• 読み: てんいん
• ローマ字: tenin
• 漢字の分解: 店 (ten/mise) — shop, store; 員 (in) — member, personnel
• 発音: /te.ɴ.iɴ/

意味

A shop employee; a clerk; a store staff member.

Refers to anyone working at a shop or store, from convenience store cashiers to department store staff. A neutral, respectful term. In conversation, 店員さん (with the polite suffix) is more common when referring to or addressing a specific shop worker.

例文

1. 店員さんに聞いてみましょう。
2. 店員がとても親切でした。
3. あの店は店員の対応がいいです。

使い方ガイド

場面: shopping, restaurants, customer service

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From classical Chinese. 店 means shop or store, and 員 means member or personnel. Together they describe a person who belongs to a shop.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal