庸 — Chinese character
庸
yōng
usual, common, ordinary, mediocre
- Pinyin
- yōng
- Radical
- 53 ⼴ (Dotted Cliff)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 广 彐 用
- Formation
- pictophonetic; sound component 用
- Japanese
- 庸 as a kanji
Common words with 庸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 平庸 | píng yōng | mediocre; indifferent |
| 庸俗 | yōng sú | vulgar; tacky |
| 中庸 | zhōng yōng | golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre |
| 附庸 | fù yōng | vassal; dependent |
| 无庸 (無庸) | wú yōng | variant of 毋庸 (wú yōng) |
| 庸才 | yōng cái | mediocrity |
| 昏庸 | hūn yōng | muddleheaded |
| 中庸之道 | zhōng yōng zhī dào | doctrine of the mean; moderation in all things |
| 庸医 (庸醫) | yōng yī | quack; charlatan |
| 庸人 | yōng rén | mediocre person |
| 庸人自扰 (庸人自擾) | yōng rén zì rǎo | lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom); fig. to get upset over nothing |
| 毋庸 | wú yōng | no need for |
English words written with 庸
庸 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 14 · Doctrine of the Mean 12
- Analects 6.27
- Hexagram 13
- Mencius 5B.2
- Mencius 6A.5
- Mencius 7A.13
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Evidence of Virtue Complete
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