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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: how do you address an older female employee in chinese?
i'm writing an email to a potential female employer (she's a director of xx). i'm not sure what i should call her 'a yi' or what in professional setting. thanks!
12 years 3 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
Call her XIaojie! It means miss i think. But yeah you don't want to call her an a yi that's for people that clean and take care of your kids. Just call her Xiaojie which means miss. It should be polite enough.
I just asked my 18yr old and he said you put the family name then Jing Li
Jing is a flat tone and Li has a falling riseing tone
hope this helps
I would stick to her name. Ayi you are calling her old or degrading her to a servant like position. Xiaojie you may come accorss as condescending or facetious.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this. You can also take her name (usually her family name like Chen) and add a jie to it if you have worked together for more than a couple weeks. Chen Jie for example is not condescending and shows that you admire her and/or respect her. However it's slightly informal. (But don't forget that's how the Guangxi train works! )