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U+7528, 用
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7528

[U+7527]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7529]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 101 用+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月手 (BQ), four-corner 77220)

  1. Kangxi radical #101, (use).

References

  • KangXi: page 755, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21703
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1166, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 97, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7528

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /yŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /yŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ʐuŋ⁵³/
/yŋ⁵³/
Jinan /yŋ²¹/
Qingdao /iŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /yuŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /yŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /yə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /yŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ỹn¹³/
Ürümqi /yŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /ioŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /yoŋ¹³/
Guiyang /ioŋ²¹³/
Kunming /ioŋ¹/
Nanjing /ioŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /iŋ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /yəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /yŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /ỹŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioŋ²³/
Suzhou /ioŋ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦioŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /jyɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /yʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /in¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ioŋ⁵⁵/
/ioŋ¹¹/
Xiangtan /in²¹/
Gan Nanchang /iuŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /iuŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʒuŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /joŋ²²/
Nanning /juŋ²²/
Hong Kong /juŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iɔŋ²²/
/iŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /øyŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /œyŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /eŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zoŋ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨoŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/jioŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ioŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juawŋH/
Li
Rong
/ioŋH/
Wang
Li
/jĭwoŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯woŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yòng
Middle
Chinese
‹ yowngH ›
Old
Chinese
/*loŋ-s/
English use (v.)

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. 15460
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*loŋs/

Definitions

  1. to use; to employ; to operate
  2. use; utility; usefulness
    •    yǒuyòng   useful
    • /    méiyòng   useless
  3. (honorific) to eat; to drink
  4. expenses; outlay
    • /    fèiyòng   cost, expense
    •    yòng   expense
    •    jiāyòng   family expenses
  5. with; by; using

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

References

  • New Nelson: 3721
  • Halpern: 2976
  • Halpern Learners: 1889
  • Heisig: 1181
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 2r3.1
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

  • Formerly used as man'yōgana for the back-vowel variant (甲類) of (yo).

Noun

(hiragana よう, romaji )

  1. use (noun)
     (よう)はありませんか。
    Go-yō wa arimasen ka.
    Can I do anything for you?; Can/may I help you?

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (쓸모): use, usage, utility, worth

Derived terms

Synonyms


Vietnamese

Han character

(dụng, dùng, giùm, rùng, dộng, đụng, giùng, rụng, vùng)

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