pìn

hire, employ

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
耳 meaning component

  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

甹 sound component

  Sound component

pīng

  

chivalrous knight

Evolution

聘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聘 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
聘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pìn

engage, employ; betroth; to engage (a teacher etc); to hire; to betroth; betrothal gift; to get married (of woman)

Most common words with 聘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

招聘

to recruit

聘请

to engage

to hire

应聘

to accept a job offer

聘用

to employ

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p.leŋ-s

pjiengH

pìn

inquire; invite


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.0937% of movies

2422nd most common character in movies

2253rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8058

Shuowen

“聘,訪也。从耳,甹聲。”


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