漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
用: utilize, business
Also: service, use, employ
JLPT N45 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
5 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ヨウyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 用事ようじtask
- 急用きゅうようurgent business
- 費用ひようcost
- 家庭用かていようfor home (vs. business) use
- 用心深いようじんぶかいwatchful
- 利用するりようするutilize
- 用意するよういするprepare
- 採用するさいようするadopt
- 信用するしんようするbelieve
もちいるmochiiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 用いるもちいるmake use of
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)
Formed by adding a handle to 同.
Source: Wiktionary, 用 (rev. 92201105), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for using a physical tool or being actively involved in a specific professional task or "business" affair.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yòng
Same form: 用 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 用 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 用 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yòng 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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