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Translingual

Han character

(radical 53 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈中月 (ILB), four-corner 00227)

  1. use, employ
  2. ordinary, common, usual
  3. ordinary, mediocre

Synonyms

  • (common):
  • (mediocre):

Antonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 347, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9378
  • Dae Jaweon: page 658, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 890, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5EB8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰoːŋ
*l̥ʰoːŋ, *loŋʔ
*l̥ʰoːŋ
*l̥ʰoːŋʔ, *l'oːŋʔ
*l̥ʰoːŋʔ
*l̥ʰoːŋs
*l'oːŋ
*ljoŋs
*l̥ʰoŋ, *loŋ
*ɦljoŋ
*ɦljoŋ, *loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋ
*loŋs
*loŋs

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/jioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juawŋ/
Li
Rong
/ioŋ/
Wang
Li
/jĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yóng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ yowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*loŋ/
English use; advantage

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15459
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*loŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 中庸 (zhōngyōng)
  • 中庸之道
  • 凡庸
  • 功庸
  • 居庸關居庸关
  • 平庸 (píngyōng)
  • 平庸之輩平庸之辈
  • 幽庸
  • 庸中佼佼
  • 庸人 (yōngrén)
  • 庸人自擾庸人自扰
  • 庸俗 (yōngsú)
  • 庸保
  • 庸劣
  • 庸器
  • 庸夫
  • 庸夫俗子
  • 庸常
  • 庸庸
  • 庸庸碌碌
  • 庸愚
  • 庸才 (yōngcái)
  • 庸材
  • 庸碌
  • 庸碌無能庸碌无能
  • 庸行
  • 庸言
  • 庸言庸行
  • 庸詎庸讵
  • 庸醫庸医
  • 庸闇
  • 庸鼓
  • 徵庸征庸
  • 昏庸
  • 樗櫟庸材樗栎庸材
  • 毋庸
  • 毋庸置疑
  • 無庸无庸
  • 無庸置疑无庸置疑
  • 無庸置辯无庸置辩
  • 無庸諱言无庸讳言
  • 無庸贅言无庸赘言
  • 疇庸畴庸
  • 登庸
  • 碌碌庸才
  • 碌碌庸流
  • 租庸調租庸调
  • 賣庸卖庸
  • 酬庸
  • 附庸
  • 附庸國附庸国
  • 附庸風雅附庸风雅

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. commonplace

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(yong) (hangeul , revised yong, McCune-Reischauer yong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References