庸
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ordinary; to use
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 广 +8
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 庸
- Common rank
- #2,224
- Unicode
- U+5EB8
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Formation & memory
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Words with 庸
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中庸之道 | doctrine of the mean; moderation in all things | |
| 平庸之恶 | (philosophy) banal evil | |
| 附庸风雅 | (of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti; to pose as a culture lover; to b… | |
| 居庸关 | Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區|昌平… | |
| 庸人自扰 | lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom); fig. to get upset over nothing; to… | |
| 平庸之辈 | a nobody; a nonentity | |
| 庸俗化 | debasement; vulgarization | |
| 大庸 | Dayong, former name of Zhangjiajie 張家界|张家界[Zhang1 jia1 jie4], Hunan | |
| 庸人 | mediocre person | |
| 中庸 | the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] | |
| 中庸 | golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary | |
| 无庸 | variant of 毋庸[wu2 yong1] | |
| 金庸 | Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2] novelist, author of the… | |
| 平庸 | mediocre; indifferent; commonplace | |
| 庸碌无能 | mediocre and incompetent | |
| 庸医 | quack; charlatan | |
| 庸才 | mediocrity | |
| 庸俗 | vulgar; tacky; tawdry | |
| 附庸 | vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage | |
| 凡庸 | ordinary; mediocre |
Sound family
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