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实用

shí yòng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 實用

实用 (shí yòng) means "practical; functional". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 实用 means

1. to apply in practice
2. practical; functional; pragmatic; applied (science)

The characters in 实用

• 实shíreal; true; honest
• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…

Example sentences

• 这不实用。
  It's not practical.
• 这个网站很实用。
  This website is very useful.
• 这本字典对我很实用。
  Zhè běn zìdiǎn duì wǒ hěn shíyòng.
  The dictionary is of great use to me.
• 这把刀对我来说很实用。
  This knife was very useful to me.
• 她给了我一些实用的建议。
  Tā gěi le wǒ yīxiē shíyòng de jiànyì.
  She gave me some practical advice.
• 有一台笔记本电脑很实用。
  Yǒu yī tái bǐjìběndiànnǎo hěn shíyòng.
  It's practical to have a laptop.

Words starting with 实用

• 实用主义shí yòng zhǔ yìpragmatism
• 实用价值shí yòng jià zhípractical value

Sounds the same

Read shí yòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 食用to eat; to consume; edible

Where 实用 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Fashion, Era & Practicality (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shí yòng correctly.
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