庸

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

1. use, employ
2. ordinary, common, usual
3. ordinary, mediocre

SynonymsEdit

• (common): 平
• (mediocre): 凡

AntonymsEdit

• (ordinary): 偉 (extraordinary, great)

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 347, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9378
• Dae Jaweon: page 658, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 890, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5EB8

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		庸

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōng (yong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): iông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: yung¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iong
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jung⁴
    • Yale: yùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iông
    • Tâi-lô: iông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ioong
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɔŋ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨoŋ/▼

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
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*loŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*loŋ/

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. *[t] 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/

CompoundsEdit

• 庸医
• 庸器
• 庸愚
• 庸言庸行
• 庸才
• 庸常
• 庸人
• 庸俗
• 庸夫
• 庸夫俗子
• 庸保
• 庸劣
• 中庸
• 平庸

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

庸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: なみ (nami), つね (tsune), もちいる (mochiiru)

CompoundsEdit

• 庸愚
• 庸君
• 庸言庸行
• 庸才
• 庸常
• 庸人
• 庸俗
• 庸夫
• 庸劣
• 中庸
• 登庸
• 凡庸

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

庸 • ‎(yong) (hangeul 용, revised yong, McCune-Reischauer yong)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

• Hán Việt: dong, dông, dung, giông

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ReferencesEdit

• Nom Foundation