委員

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 委員(いいん) means a committee member or a person selected to take responsibility for a particular task.
• Basic usage: It refers to elected class representatives or committee members contributing to a meeting.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A member and a chairperson
  • 委員 means a member; 委員長 means the chairperson who leads the committee.
• The repeated い sound
  • The reading is いいん, with two successive い sounds.