雇

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 戶 + semantic 隹

Han character

雇 (radical 172 隹+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸人土 (HSOG), 戈尸人土 (ISOG), four-corner 3021₄, composition ⿸戸隹)

1. employ, to hire

Descendants

• 顧

References

• KangXi: page 1365, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41976
• Dae Jaweon: page 1870, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4096, character 2
• Unihan data for U+96C7

---

Cantonese

Hanzi

雇 (Yale gu3)

---

Japanese

Kanji

雇 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: こ (ko)
• Kun: やとう (yatou), やとい (yatoi)

---

Korean

Hanja

雇 (hangeul 고, 호, revised go, ho, McCune-Reischauer ko, ho, Yale ko, ho)

---

Mandarin

Hanzi

雇 (pinyin gù (gu4), Wade-Giles ku⁴)

---

Vietnamese

Han character

雇 (cố)

Last modified on 10 January 2011, at 20:59