The Chinese word 雇主 (gùzhǔ), meaning "employer", is a compound word formed by combining two meaningful characters: 雇 (gù), which historically relates to hiring or employing labor and carries the core concept of employment, and 主 (zhǔ), which means "master", "owner", or "primary party". Together, they create a logical semantic unit where 主 acts as the head, indicating the person or entity in the dominant or controlling position, and 雇 specifies the domain of that control, hiring. Thus, the term literally and conceptually denotes "the master/principal party of employment". This formation follows the common Chinese morphological pattern of modifier (雇) + head (主) to precisely define a specific social and economic role.