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庸

yōng

HSK 6 Character

What 庸 means

1. ordinary
2. to use

Example sentences

• 庸人自扰。
  Yōngrénzìrǎo.
  Much ado about nothing.
• 无庸置疑！
  Without a doubt!
• 毋庸置疑。
  No doubt.
• 凡事行中庸之道。
  Moderation in all things.
• 这个医生是个庸医。
  The doctor was a charlatan.
• 毋庸置疑，汤姆毒害了玛丽。
  Wúyōngzhìyí, Tāngmǔ dúhài le Mǎlì.
  There's no doubt Tom poisoned Mary.

Words starting with 庸

• 庸俗yōng súvulgar; tacky; tawdry
• 庸人yōng rénmediocre person
• 庸才yōng cáimediocrity
• 庸碌yōng lùmediocre
• 庸医yōng yīquack; charlatan
• 庸俗化yōng sú huàdebasement; vulgarization
• 庸人自扰yōng rén zì rǎolit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom); fig. to get upset over nothing…
• 庸庸碌碌yōng yōng lù lùordinary; mediocre
• 庸碌无能yōng lù wú néngmediocre and incompetent

Words containing 庸

• 金庸Jīn YōngJin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武侠
• 平庸píng yōngmediocre; indifferent; commonplace
• 中庸zhōng yōnggolden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
• 居庸关Jū yōng guānJuyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平区
• 附庸风雅fù yōng fēng yǎ(of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti; to pose as a culture lover…
• 附庸fù yōngvassal; dependent; subordinate
• 凡庸fán yōngordinary; mediocre
• 大庸Dà yōngDayong, former name of Zhangjiajie 张家界
• 昏庸hūn yōngmuddleheaded
• 中庸之道zhōng yōng zhī dàodoctrine of the mean; moderation in all things
• 平庸之恶píng yōng zhī è(philosophy) banal evil
• 平庸之辈píng yōng zhī bèia nobody; a nonentity
• 毋庸wú yōngno need for
• 无庸wú yōngvariant of 毋庸

Characters that look like 庸

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 康kānghealthy; peaceful; abundant
• 唐tángto exaggerate; empty; in vain
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 鹿lùdeer
• 煮zhǔto cook; to boil
• 屡lǚtime and again; repeatedly; frequently

Sounds the same

Read yōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 拥to hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around; to throng; to swarm
• 佣to hire; to employ; servant
• 雍harmony
• 慵lethargic
• 镛large bell
• 臃used in 臃肿
• 墉fortified wall; city wall
• 壅to obstruct; to stop up; to heap soil around the roots of a plant
• 邕city surrounded by a moat; old variant of 雍; old variant of 壅
• 痈carbuncle
• 饔(literary) cooked food; breakfast
• 廱harmonious