用
Meanings
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- 1.to use; to make use of; to employ
- 2.(coverb) with; using
- 3.to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions)
- 4.usefulness; utility
- 5.(bound form) expense; outlay
- 6.(courteous) to eat; to drink
- 7.(literary) hence; therefore
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Wiktionary
- 1.to use; to employ; to operate
- 2.use; utility; usefulness
- 3.to eat; to drink
- 4.expenses; outlay
- 5.with; by; using
- 6.to need
- 7.therefore
- 8.because of; due to; because
- 9.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): Formed by adding a handle to 同 (OC *lˤoŋ), which also acts as the phonetic component. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *z(j)um ~ *zuŋ, provisionally set up by STEDT. Cognates to 傭 (OC loŋ) and 庸 (OC loŋ), outside Sinitic, Southern Bai zv³¹ (“to use”) Burmese သုံး (sum:, “to use”), Ersu zi⁵⁵ (“to use”), Nuosu ꌬ (ssi, “to use”), Pa'o Karen [script needed] (sūŋ, “to use”). Sun (1999) and Schuessler (2007) consider this word a cognate to Tibetan ལོངས (longs, “use”) Definition 10 comes sound-matching of the character 蓉 from the term 細蓉 / 细蓉.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
请用座。
Please sit.
用英语说。
Say it in English.
请用这个。
Use this.
你用跑的。
Run.
用鉛筆寫。
Write it in pencil.
你真沒用。
You're really useless.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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