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  *用* | 用* | *用
to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using / to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions) / usefulness; utility / (bound form) expense; outlay / (courteous) to eat; to drink / (literary) hence; therefore
HSK 1
to use / to employ / to apply / to make use of
HSK 2
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  *使* | 使* | *使
to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger
HSK 3
to adopt / to employ / to use
HSK 3
employee / person employed in a trade or profession
servant / to employ sb for a job / to manage people / to be in need of staff
HSK 7-9
worker employed by the month
self-employed / a private firm (PRC usage)
to be employed / to be in post / on-the-job
HSK 7-9
to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
to employ; to hire
HSK 7-9
to employ; to hire
HSK 7-9
specially engaged / employed or commissioned for a special task
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  *聘* | 聘* | *聘
to employ; to appoint / (bound form) to betroth / (coll.) (of a woman) to get married; to be marrried off / (literary) to visit another state as an envoy on a diplomatic mission / Taiwan pr. [ping4]
HSK 7-9
employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best
employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best / also written 人盡其才|人尽其才
to employ workers
master of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting skills and guard the house / (fig.) sb who arrogantly and condescendingly lectures others
to work; to be employed
to employ a stratagem
refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
to employ / to send for sb promising employment
to hire / to employ / to engage
to be employed at
lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom) / patronage / protection
Westerner employed in Qing China (as professor or military advisor etc)
to employ / to recruit (talented personnel) / to gather together (a team)
to get divorced shortly after marriage / to resign shortly after getting employed
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  *雇* | 雇* | *雇
to employ / to hire / to rent
HSK 7-9
working couple (husband and wife both employed)
to employ by an examination
Employment Stability Fee (Taiwan), a minimum monthly fee for employing foreign workers
to employ; to hire
(archaic) navy / person employed to post messages on the Internet (abbr. for 網絡水軍|网络水军)
to employ by examination
community worker employed under China's grid-based governance system, responsible for patrolling neighborhoods, collecting information, mediating disputes and assisting residents
laborer; service worker (typically employed on a contractual or temporary basis)
to employ / to hire
HSK 7-9
to assess sb's capabilities and employ him accordingly (idiom); to employ sb competent for the task
self-employed / profession
to include (in a collection) / to put together (stories, poems etc) / to record / to employ / to recruit
semi-employed / partly employed / underemployed
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  *佣* | 佣* | *佣
to hire / to employ / servant / hired laborer / domestic help
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  *驺* | 驺* | *驺
groom or chariot driver employed by a noble (old)
to be employed / to be hired / hired / paid
members of the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院, employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards
the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius)


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