雇 — Chinese character
雇
gù
employment; to hire, to employ
- Pinyin
- gù
- Radical
- 172 ⾫ (Short Tailed Bird)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 户 隹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 隹; sound component 户
- Japanese
- 雇 as a kanji
Common words with 雇
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雇主 (僱主) | gù zhǔ | variant of 雇主 (gù zhǔ) |
| 雇主 | gù zhǔ | employer |
| 雇佣 (僱傭) | gù yōng | to employ; to hire |
| 雇佣 (雇傭) | gù yōng | to employ; to hire |
| 解雇 (解僱) | jiě gù | to fire; to sack |
| 雇员 (雇員) | gù yuán | employee |
| 雇用 (僱用) | gù yòng | to employ; to hire |
| 受雇 (受僱) | shòu gù | to be employed; to be hired |
| 雇佣兵 (雇傭兵) | gù yōng bīng | (military) mercenary |
| 雇凶 (僱兇) | gù xiōng | to hire a hitman |
| 贫雇农 (貧雇農) | pín gù nóng | poor peasants (in Marxism) |
| 劳雇 (勞雇) | láo gù | labor and employer |
English words written with 雇
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.