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通用

tōng yòng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

通用 (tōng yòng) means "to be in general use". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 通用 means

1. to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc)
2. to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc)
3. (of two or more things) interchangeable

The characters in 通用

• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…

Example sentences

• 在商朝，贝朋为通用货币。
  Zài Shāngcháo, bèi péng wèi tōngyòng huòbì.
  Seashells were the legal tender in the Shang dynasty.
• 英语是很多国家通用的语言。
  Yīngyǔ shì hěn duōguó jiā tōngyòng de yǔyán.
  English is spoken in a lot of countries.
• 英语是一种全世界通用的语言。
  Yīngyǔ shì yīzhǒng quánshìjiè tōngyòng de yǔyán.
  English is a language spoken all over the world.

Words starting with 通用

• 通用性tōng yòng xìnguniversality
• 通用电器Tōng yòng Diàn qìGeneral Electric (GE)
• 通用语tōng yòng yǔcommon language; lingua franca
• 通用电气Tōng yòng Diàn qìGeneral Electric (GE)
• 通用码Tōng yòng mǎStandard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding…
• 通用航空tōng yòng háng kōnggeneral aviation
• 通用字符集tōng yòng zì fú jíuniversal character set UCS
• 通用汽车Tōng yòng Qì chēGeneral Motors (car company)
• 通用汽车公司Tōng yòng Qì chē Gōng sīGeneral Motors
• 通用人工智能tōng yòng rén gōng zhì néngartificial general intelligence (AGI)
• 通用拼音tōng yòng pīn yīnthe common use romanization system introduced in Taiwan in 2003
• 通用串行总线tōng yòng chuàn xíng zǒng xiàn(computing) Universal Serial Bus; USB
• 通用汉字标准交换码Tōng yòng Hàn zì Biāo zhǔn Jiāo huàn mǎStandard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding…

Words containing 通用

• 字根通用码zì gēn tōng yòng mǎcommon coding for components of Chinese character; same as Zheng coding 郑码

Where 通用 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tiáo–tóng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tōng yòng correctly.
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