お手伝いさん
おてつだいさん · otetsudaisan · JLPT N2 · noun
maid
🧹 お手伝い = help (手伝い) + さん = person: a person who helps around the house
The polite お prefix and the person suffix さん turn the verb-noun 手伝い (help) into a job title. Hire someone to do the housework and you hire an お手伝いさん.
手 — pictograph of a hand with five fingers
手 is a pictograph showing an open hand with fingers and a wrist. Early bronze and oracle bone forms clearly depict five splayed fingers, which simplified over time into the modern shape. It keeps its original meaning of 'hand' and also serves as a radical in many characters related to hand actions.