A cermet blade member including a cermet substrate is provided which consists essentially of: 0.2% by weight to 8% by weight of a binder phase of at least one binder metal of cobalt and nickel; 5% by weight to 30% by weight of a first hard dispersed phase of at least one material of zirconia and a stabilized zirconia; and the remainder of a second hard dispersed phase of at least one metal carbo-nitride. The metal of the above-mentioned metal carbo-nitride is selected from metals in Group IVA in a periodic table. In addition, a cermet blade member including the cermet substrate and a hard coating layer formed on the surface of the cermet substrate is provided. The hard coating layer consists of at least one layer of a compound selected from a titanium carbide, a titanium nitride, a titanium carbo-nitride, titanium carbo-oxide represented by TiCO, titanium carbo-oxi-nitride represented by TiCNO and an aluminum oxide.