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Usage of the character 庸

yōng
[庸]
  • ordinary
  • to use
fányōng
凡庸
[凡庸]
  • ordinary
  • mediocre
píngyōng
平庸
[平庸]
  • mediocre
  • indifferent
  • commonplace
yōngcái
庸才
[庸才]
  • mediocrity
hūnyōng
昏庸
[昏庸]
  • muddleheaded
wúyōng
无庸
[無庸]
  • variant of 毋庸 (wúyōng)
yōngrén
庸人
[庸人]
  • mediocre person
Jīn Yōng
金庸
[金庸]
  • Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠/武侠 (wǔxiá) novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy
fùyōng
附庸
[附庸]
  • vassal
  • dependent
  • subordinate
  • subservient
  • appendage
Zhōngyōng
中庸
[中庸]
  • the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書/四书 ( Sìshū)
yōnglù
庸碌
[庸碌]
  • mediocre
wúyōng
毋庸
[毋庸]
  • no need for
yōngsú
庸俗
[庸俗]
  • vulgar
  • tacky
  • tawdry
zhōngyōng
中庸
[中庸]
  • golden mean (Confucianism)
  • (literary) (of person) mediocre
  • ordinary
Dàyōng
大庸
[大庸]
  • Dayong, former name of Zhangjiajie 張家界/张家界 ( Zhāngjiājiè), Hunan
yōngyī
庸医
[庸醫]
  • quack
  • charlatan
Jūyōngguān
居庸关
[居庸關]
  • Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區/昌平区 ( Chāngpíngqū)
yōngsúhuà
庸俗化
[庸俗化]
  • debasement; vulgarization
yōnglùwúnéng
庸碌无能
[庸碌無能]
  • mediocre and incompetent
yōngrénzìrǎo
庸人自扰
[庸人自擾]
  • lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom)
  • fig. to get upset over nothing
  • to make problems for oneself
fùyōngfēngyǎ
附庸风雅
[附庸風雅]
  • (of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti
  • to pose as a culture lover
  • to be a culture snob
  • having pretensions to culture
yōngrényōngfú
庸人庸福
[庸人庸福]
  • fools have good fortune (idiom)
yōngyōnglùlù
庸庸碌碌
[庸庸碌碌]
  • ordinary
  • mediocre
píngyōngzhī'è
平庸之恶
[平庸之惡]
  • (philosophy) banal evil
zhōngyōngzhīdào
中庸之道
[中庸之道]
  • doctrine of the mean
  • moderation in all things
píngyōngzhībèi
平庸之辈
[平庸之輩]
  • a nobody
  • a nonentity
dēngyōngréncái
登庸人才
[登庸人才]
  • to employ talent (idiom)