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Kanji Detail for 庸 - "ordinary, employ"

庸

  • Meaning

    庸 means "ordinary, employ." Also associated with constant.

    1. Ordinary - Common; average; mediocre.

    2. Employ - To use; to make use of.

    3. Constant - Unchanging; regular.

  • Tattoo check: 庸

    • Verified meaning: ordinary, employ
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いさお, いさを, のぶ, ひとし)
    • Also carries these associations: constant

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 庸

    Given names 庸(いさお)Listen 庸(ひとし)Listen 庸(よう)Listen 庸(よん)Listen

    Surnames 庸(いさを)Listen 庸(のぶ)Listen 庸(ひろし)Listen 庸(やすし)Listen

  • 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

    tip

    yoh(ヨウ) ヨウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    广 (madare)

  • Related Keywords

    ordinary employ constant foolish mediocrity commonplace average everyday mediocre mundane normal plain regular routine standard typical unchanging unexceptional unremarkable use usual

Sentences including 庸

  • Moderation in all things.

  • He is man of moderate views.

  • It is difficult to find a happy medium between city and countryside.

  • To become popular, you need to be mediocre.

  • In the hands of a wise person, things become really simple. It's a mediocre person, pretending to be wise, that makes an easy thing sound difficult.

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