庸

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庸 U+5EB8, 庸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EB8
← 康
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 庹 →

Translingual

Han character

庸 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈中月 (ILB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿸广𬎾)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 347, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9378
  • Dae Jaweon: page 658, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 890, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5EB8

Chinese

trad. 庸
simp. # 庸
2nd round simp. ⿸广用
alternative forms 𠆌 ancient
㐯 ancient

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (用) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
通 *l̥ʰoːŋ
俑 *l̥ʰoːŋ, *loŋʔ
蓪 *l̥ʰoːŋ
桶 *l̥ʰoːŋʔ, *l'oːŋʔ
捅 *l̥ʰoːŋʔ
痛 *l̥ʰoːŋs
筩 *l'oːŋ
誦 *ljoŋs
傭 *l̥ʰoŋ, *loŋ
慵 *ɦljoŋ
鱅 *ɦljoŋ, *loŋ
滽 *loŋ
墉 *loŋ
鏞 *loŋ
鄘 *loŋ
槦 *loŋ
銿 *loŋ
甬 *loŋʔ
勇 *loŋʔ
涌 *loŋʔ
踊 *loŋʔ
蛹 *loŋʔ
恿 *loŋʔ
慂 *loŋʔ
悀 *loŋʔ
埇 *loŋʔ
踴 *loŋʔ
庸 *loŋ
用 *loŋs
佣 *loŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *loŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : abbreviated semantic 庚 + phonetic 用 (OC *loŋs).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • iông - literary;
  • sông - vernacular.
Rime
Character 庸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 餘封切
Baxter yowng
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jung4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 庸
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. * 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 庸
Reading # 1/1
No. 15459
Phonetic
component 		用
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		容
Old
Chinese 		/*loŋ/

Definitions

庸

  1. to use; to employ
  2. to need
    毋庸置疑  ―  wúyōngzhìyí  ―  to not need to question
  3. contribution; merit
  4. ordinary; common; (by extension) mediocre; inferior
  5. (literary, rhetorical question) how; how can it be that (used in rhetorical questions)
    Synonym: 豈／岂 (qǐ)
  6. a surname

Synonyms

  • (common): 平 (píng)
  • (mediocre): 凡 (fán)

Antonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

庸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. commonplace

Readings

Compounds


Kanji in this term
庸
よう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Affix

庸(よう) • (yō) 

  1. ordinary; commonplace

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

庸 (eum 용 (yong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

庸: Hán Nôm readings: dong, dông, dung, giông

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References

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