Xiāoshòuyuán àn xiāoshòu'é de bǎifēnzhī wǔ shōuqǔ yòngjīn.
The salesperson takes five percent of sales as commission.
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usage
This yòng reading means a middleman's commission and shows up almost only in 佣金 (commission, brokerage fee). For hiring or servants the character is read yōng instead (雇佣, 佣人).
Left person radical, the side form of 人, a standing figure compressed into two strokes. The indexing element. It marks 佣 as a person-related word: hired servants, or a commission paid to an agent. Family: 仆, 佃, 雇.
Right 用 supplies the sound and a strong semantic flavor: a person (亻) plus 'use' gives someone hired for labor or paid a fee. The phonetic encodes the meaning. Family: 拥, 涌, 庸.
