gu3 jung6僱用雇用
Jyutpinggu3 jung6
Yalegu yuhng
Definition
To employ or hire someone.
neutralwork
How it's used
Formal contexts like job advertisements or legal documents prefer the term 僱用, while everyday speech almost exclusively uses 請人. Using 僱用 in casual conversation can sound overly stiff, as if reading from a contract or a news report. It carries a sense of professional or institutional authority that 请人 lacks.
Examples
The company has hired a lot of new people recently.
How many people do you plan to hire to help out?
Related words
Common mistake
Learners often mistakenly use 僱用 when talking about hiring a domestic helper, but native speakers typically use 請工人 instead. 僱用 is reserved for more formal employment relationships.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
