Chinese Character Wiki

傭

yōng

commission fee

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

庸 sound component

庸  Sound component

yōng

  

usual

Evolution

傭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
傭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

佣 (傭) 

yōng

hire, employ, charter; servant; to hire; to employ; hired laborer; domestic help

Most common words with 傭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雇佣

to employ

佣金

commission

女佣

(female) maid

佣

to hire

佣人

servant

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*loŋ

yowng

yōng

hire


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.3567% of movies

1909th most common character in movies

2546th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

佣

Unicode

U+50AD

Shuowen

“傭，均，直也。从人，庸聲。”


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