The Chinese word for musician is
音乐家

yīn yuè jiā

Chinese Definition

musician
1. 音乐家
2. 乐师
3. 作曲家
4. 指挥者
Components
音乐
1. Simplified form of 音樂
音
1. sound; voice; tone
蘿莉-音 - loli voice
2. news; tidings
3. (music) pitch; note
4. (phonetics) pronunciation; syllable
京音 - Beijing pronunciation
潮音 - Teochew pronunciation
中古音 - Middle Chinese pronunciation
方音 - dialectal pronunciation
^陽江音 - Yangjiang pronunciation
乐
1. Variant of 樂
家
1. Simplified form of 傢
2. Only used in 大家#Pronunciation 3 (大家, tr=dàgū)