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傭

傭

傭 U+50AD, 傭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50AD
← 催
[U+50AC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 傮 →
[U+50AE]
See also: 佣

Translingual

Han character

傭 (radical 9 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人戈中月 (OILB), four-corner 20227, composition ⿰亻庸)

  1. hire, employ, charter
  2. servant

References

  • KangXi: page 114, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1007
  • Dae Jaweon: page 242, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 214, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+50AD

Chinese

trad. 傭
simp. 佣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 傭
Small seal script

s05728
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (用) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
通 *l̥ʰoːŋ
俑 *l̥ʰoːŋ, *loŋʔ
蓪 *l̥ʰoːŋ
桶 *l̥ʰoːŋʔ, *l'oːŋʔ
捅 *l̥ʰoːŋʔ
痛 *l̥ʰoːŋs
筩 *l'oːŋ
誦 *ljoŋs
傭 *l̥ʰoŋ, *loŋ
慵 *ɦljoŋ
鱅 *ɦljoŋ, *loŋ
滽 *loŋ
墉 *loŋ
鏞 *loŋ
鄘 *loŋ
槦 *loŋ
銿 *loŋ
甬 *loŋʔ
勇 *loŋʔ
涌 *loŋʔ
踊 *loŋʔ
蛹 *loŋʔ
恿 *loŋʔ
慂 *loŋʔ
悀 *loŋʔ
埇 *loŋʔ
踴 *loŋʔ
庸 *loŋ
用 *loŋs
佣 *loŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 傭 傭
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 徹 (10)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 餘封切 丑凶切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨoŋ/ /ʈʰɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jioŋ/ /ʈʰioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ioŋ/ /ȶʰioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juawŋ/ /ʈʰuawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ioŋ/ /ȶʰioŋ/
Wang
Li		 /jĭwoŋ/ /ȶʰĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯woŋ/ /ȶʰi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yóng chōng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 傭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*loŋ/
English hire

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 傭 傭
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15437 15444
Phonetic
component		 用 用
Rime
group		 東 東
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蹱 容
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰoŋ/ /*loŋ/
Notes 庸轉註字見莊子

Definitions

傭

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Compounds

  • 女傭／女佣 (nǚyōng)
  • 幫傭／帮佣
  • 德潤傭書／德润佣书

References

Japanese

Kanji

傭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

傭 • ‎(yong, chung) (hangeul 용, 충, revised yong, chung, McCune-Reischauer yong, ch'ung)

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