雇う
やとう · yatou · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to employ
💼 yatou sounds like ya, to you! — the boss saying the job goes to you
雇 = 戸 door + 隹 bird. One way to remember it: a worker comes through the employer's door. To say you hire someone, you say 人を雇う (hito o yatou).
雇 — door 户 + short-tailed bird 隹
Originally a phono-semantic compound: 隹 (bird) gives the meaning and 户 (door) hints at the sound, referring to a migratory bird (a type of cuckoo). The meaning later shifted by loan to 'hire' or 'employ', as in 雇佣, while the original bird sense faded from common use.