聘
pìn HSK6

hire, employ

聘 pìn
employ verb
to employ, hire, or appoint someone to a position

公司决定聘请他担任技术顾问。

gōng​sī jué​dìng pìn qǐng tā dān​rèn jì​shù gù​wèn.

The company decided to hire him as a technical consultant.

betroth verb
to betroth or (of a woman) to get married or be married off

他在女儿很小的时候就将其许聘给好友之子。

tā zài nǚ'ér hěn xiǎo de shí​hou jiù jiāng qí xǔ pìn gěi hǎo​yǒu zhī zǐ.

He betrothed his daughter to the son of a close friend when she was very young.

visit as envoy verb
to visit another state or court as an envoy on a diplomatic mission

大夫受命出聘邻国。

dà​fū shòu​mìng chū pìn lín​guó.

The high official was commissioned to visit a neighboring country as an envoy.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,253rd most common 26.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,422nd most common 9.71 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.33 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
11.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8058

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)