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解雇 (jiě gù) — to fire; to dismiss (from employment)

Definition

解雇 means to fire an employee for cause (poor performance, rule-breaking). Compare with 开除 (school/organization ejection), 辞退 (employer asks someone to leave), 裁员 (mass layoff for restructuring), and 免职 (removal from an official post).

verb
to fireto dismiss (from employment)

Examples

  • 解雇。
    Tā yīn wèi gōng zuò biǎo xiàn bù hǎo bèi jiě gù le.
    He was fired because of poor work performance.
  • 解雇。
    Gōng sī jiě gù le yì míng wéi fǎn guī dìng de yuán gōng.
    The company fired an employee who violated the rules.
  • ，解雇。
    Gōng sī hé bìng hòu, hěn duō rén bèi jiě gù le.
    After the company merger, many people were fired.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

解jiěundo
雇gùhire

解 means undo or remove, and 雇 refers to hiring, so the sense is to remove the hiring.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

解 shows 刀 (knife) separating 角 (horn) from 牛 (cow), giving the picture of cutting up an ox.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
隹隹zhuī
Sound part声符shēngfú
戶
戶hù雇gù
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

雇 is made of 戶 and 隹: 戶 points to the sound, and 隹 points to the meaning.

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