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庸: commonplace, ordinary

Also: employment

JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

广 and ⺕ carry the meaning · 用 gives the sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ヨウyou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 凡庸ぼんようmediocre; ordinary; commonplace
  • 庸ようtax paid to avoid forced labor (ritsuryō…
  • 中庸ちゅうようmiddle way; (golden) mean; moderation

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)庚 (meaning) + 同 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 庸 (rev. 92161101), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Building/slant roof (广) + to use (用). Originally referred to something that had a regular, "building-wide" utility—representing the "common" or standard way of doing things.”
From the 用 to use story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
广

Also built on slant roof (广)

All 25
⺕

Also built on ⺕

15 in all
用

Also built on to use (用)

All 2

庸 takes the 用 family's reading, ヨウ (you).

Also read ヨウ

34 kanji share this on'yomiAll 34

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
庸 commonplace · 广 + ⺕
vs備 equip · 亻 + 艹 + 厂
庸 has 广 + ⺕ where 備 has 亻 + 艹 + 厂.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yōng

Same form: 庸 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
庸 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
庸 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yōng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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