To hire or employ someone, usually referring to manual labor or unskilled workers rather than professionals

female servant; maid

a fee paid to an agent or middleman for services rendered in a transaction; fee or payment given to a broker or middleman for facilitating a transaction

Domestic servant; a person hired to perform household tasks

soldier who fights in a foreign army for pay rather than for political or ideological reasons

a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army

labor performed for a wage or salary; work done for hire

hired laborer; servant

a servant or person hired to help with housework; domestic help

a female domestic worker or housemaid

wage laborer; wage earner

An attitude of doing no more than one is paid for; treating one's work as a passive chore for an employer rather than taking initiative or ownership

female servant; domestic worker; housekeeper; domestic helper

Money paid to a broker or middleman for services; brokerage; poundage; also called [[用钱|用錢|yong4 qian5]]

(literary) to be hired to copy books or transcribe documents; more generally, to work for others doing clerical or writing tasks

an outstanding person among ordinary people; the best of a mediocre lot

to be hired to do work; to work for others as a laborer

(variant form) philistine, tacky, or low in taste

(literary) a hired worker or servant; a common laborer

a female domestic servant; servant girl

(literary) to be hired to plow or farm for others

domestic worker or servant employed by a household

man employed to perform domestic services or housework

A domestic worker from the Philippines, commonly employed in Chinese-speaking regions

(regional) commission; brokerage; middleman's fee; primarily used in the Wuhan region

a soldier hired to serve in a foreign army, as distinguished from a conscript or regular soldier

a system of military recruitment based on voluntary service or hiring rather than conscription