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庸
Pinyin: yōng
English Definition: ordinary; to use
Chinese Definition:
①平常，不高明的：平庸。庸医。庸言。庸俗。庸人。昏庸。庸主(平庸或昏庸的君主)。庸夫。庸暗(平凡，愚昧)。庸庸碌碌(没有志气，没有作为)。
②需要：无庸细述。无庸讳言。
③岂，怎么：庸讵(岂，何以，怎么，亦作“庸遽”)。
④中国唐代一种赋税法：租庸调。
⑤功劳：庸绩(功绩)。
⑥古同“佣”，雇佣。
Total strokes: 11; Radical: 广
Pictophonetic: 用 indicates the sound; 广 (A home 广 with a servant 隶) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • ⿸ Surround from upper left
    • 广 [ guǎng ] broad, vast, wide; building, house
    • ⿱ Above to below
Similar Characters: 廑
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Example Words
庸俗 yōng sú vulgar; tacky; tawdry
平庸 píng yōng mediocre; indifferent; commonplace
中庸 zhōng yōng the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四书
中庸 zhōng yōng golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
附庸 fù yōng vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage
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Example Sentences
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yìn dù
印度
de
的
yě xīn
野心
wú yōng zhì yí
无庸置疑
。
There is little doubt about its ambitions.
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