雇
gù HSK7

employ

雇 gù frequency
variant 僱
to hire verb
to employ or hire someone to do a job

我从来没有雇他做任何事情。

wǒ cóng​lái méi​yǒu gù tā zuò rèn​hé shì​qing.

I never hired him to do anything.

我雇你去找我妻子。

wǒ gù nǐ qù zhǎo wǒ qī​zi.

I hired you to find my wife.

to rent verb
to pay for the temporary use of a vehicle (car, boat, etc.) or animal

他们雇了一条船。

tā​men gù le yī tiáo chuán.

They hired a boat.

雇 gù
hired noun
(bound form) describing someone who is hired or employed by others
Gu
(bound form) a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,817th most common 45.8 per million
Movie subtitles
999th most common 104.6 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
47.2 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
6.74 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+96C7

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