HSK 6 · Work

雇佣 gùyōng “to employ” in Chinese

Traditional 僱傭

What 雇佣 means

  1. to employ
  2. to hire

How to say 雇佣

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale雇gù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale佣yōng1st tone, high and level

雇佣 in a sentence

  1. 她雇佣我来帮助她。

    Tā gùyōng wǒ lái bāngzhù tā.

    She hired me to help her.

    Sentence #8743623 from Tatoeba

How 雇佣 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 雇 (gù) with each of its parts in a different colour
雇gùto employ
  • 户door · hùSound part
  • 隹short-tailed bird · zhuīMeaning part

隹 hints at the meaning (short-tailed bird); 户 (hù) hints at the sound. Compare it with gù.

The character 佣 (yōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
佣yōngto hire
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 用use · yòng

How to write 雇佣

雇 12 strokes · 佣 7 strokes

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雇佣 (gùyōng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 雇佣 (gùyōng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 雇佣

Words with 雇

解雇jiěgù · to dismiss

More words: Work & Career

公务gōngwù · official business骨干gǔgàn · backbone规划guīhuà · plan顾问gùwèn · adviser合伙héhuǒ · to form a partnership后勤hòuqín · logistics汇报huìbào · to report监督jiāndū · to supervise

FAQs

雇佣 (gùyōng) means “to employ” or “to hire”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gùyōng: gù with a 4th tone, then yōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 雇佣 is written 僱傭. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guyong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 雇佣 from the suggestions. Typing guyong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
雇佣 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.