Chinese Character Wiki

庸

yōng

usual

Components
广 unknown component

广  Unknown component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

彐 unknown component

彐  Unknown component

jì

  

snout

用 sound component

用  Sound component

yòng

  

use

Evolution

庸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
庸 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
庸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
庸 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
庸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

庸  

yōng

usual, common, ordinary, mediocre; ordinary; to use

Most common words with 庸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

平庸

mediocre

庸俗

vulgar

庸

ordinary

金庸

Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠|武侠[wǔ​xiá] novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy

中庸

ordinary

Component uses

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

傭 慵 镛 墉 鱅 鳙

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*loŋ

yowng

yōng

use; advantage


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.9976% of movies

2538th most common character in movies

2148th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5EB8

Shuowen

“庸，用也。从用，从庚。庚，更事也。《易》曰：‘先庚三日。’”


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