洋员

Traditional form:

洋員

Pinyin (reading):

yángyuán

Definitions:

• Westerner employed in Qing China (as professor or military advisor etc)

Characters:

• 洋 - sea, ocean; western, foreign
• 员 - employee; member; personnel, staff

Traditional characters:

• 洋 - sea, ocean; western, foreign
• 員 - employee; member; personnel, staff