Keyword
ordinary
- usual
- common
- mediocre
- Frequency
- #2375
- Strokes
- 11
Readings
yōng
Mnemonic
用 gives the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
平庸
mediocre; indifferent; commonplace
金庸
Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武侠 (wǔxiá) novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy
庸俗
vulgar; tacky; tawdry
中庸
the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四书 (Sìshū)
庸
ordinary; to use
附庸
vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage
庸才
mediocrity
昏庸
muddleheaded
中庸之道
doctrine of the mean; moderation in all things
庸医
quack; charlatan
庸人
mediocre person
庸人自扰
lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom); fig. to get upset over nothing; to make problems for oneself
居庸关
Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平区 (Chāngpíngqū)
毋庸
no need for
庸俗化
debasement; vulgarization
庸碌
mediocre
附庸风雅
(of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti; to pose as a culture lover; to be a culture snob; having pretensions to culture
庸庸碌碌
ordinary; mediocre
大庸
Dayong, former name of Zhangjiajie 张家界 (Zhāngjiājiè), Hunan
平庸之辈
a nobody; a nonentity
凡庸
ordinary; mediocre