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Kanji Detail for 雇 - "to employ, to hire"

雇

  • Meaning

    雇 means "to employ, to hire." Also associated with to engage.

    1. Employ - To hire; to pay wages for work.

    2. Hire - To engage someone's services.

    3. Employment - The state of having a job.

  • Words using 雇

    • 解雇 かいこ Listen dismissal (of an employee); discharge; firing
    • 雇い主 やといぬし Listen employer

  • Tattoo check: 雇

    • Verified meaning: to employ, to hire
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to engage

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    employ; hire

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    employ, to hire

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 雇[gu4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    employment; to hire, to employ

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ko(コ) コ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    yato.u(やと-う) やと-う

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    隹 (furutori)

  • Related Keywords

    to employ to hire engage job labor occupation work recruit contract career pay salary wages staff

Sentences including 雇

  • They said they would employ me at the office.

  • If you are honest , i will hire you.

  • They have been in my employ for five years.

  • As he was an honest man , i employed him.

  • We will employ a man who can speak english.

  • You can employ him.

  • He is still on the payroll of the company.

  • He is employed in a bank.

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