also: ぞうよう
New employees often start with odd jobs.
It took half a day to finish the household chores.
noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
miscellaneous expenses
Only with reading ぞうよう
Rare reading ぞうよう used in accounting or formal contexts for sundry expenses.
This account item includes miscellaneous expenses.
雑用 refers to small, miscellaneous chores or odd jobs, while 用事 can be any single task, big or small, that one needs to take care of.
Standard kanji spelling for the common reading ざつよう.
Rare reading used only for the 'miscellaneous expenses' sense.
Compound of 雑 (miscellaneous) and 用 (business, use). The reading ぞうよう is a less common historical variant.