Kanji Detail for 庸 - "ordinary, employ, constant"

庸

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
庸 means "ordinary, employ, constant."
1. Ordinary - Common; average; mediocre.
2. Employ - To use; to make use of.
3. Constant - Unchanging; regular.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

commonplace; ordinary; employment

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

usual, common, ordinary, mediocre

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

ordinary; to use

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

usual, common, ordinary, mediocre

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To use. Such as 登庸, meaning promoting someone to office. Also a particle. Not needing to be so is also 無庸, like saying "unnecessary." | Ordinary. Such as 庸言, 庸行, meaning utterly unremarkable, what everyone can follow. | Merit. Such as rewarding merit being called 酬庸之典. | Foolish. Such as 庸人, 凡庸. | How could. (Zuo Zhuan) "How could this not be disloyalty?" | A type of tax. Tang had the tax system of 租庸調. 庸 meant labor service tax. | Being hired to work for others is called 庸. Commonly written as 傭.
Onyomi

yoh(よう)
Kunyomi

mochi.iru(もちいる)

nan.zo(なんぞ)

oro.ka(おろか)

tsune(つね)
Strokes

11 strokes
Radical

广 (madare)
Related Keywords
ordinary common average mediocre employ use hire constant regular usual normal standard moderate balanced steady reliable dependable practical useful functional