U+7528, 用
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7528

[U+7527]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7529]
See also:

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 101, 用+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月手 (BQ), four-corner 77220)

  1. Kangxi radical #101, .

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/用

References

  • KangXi: page 755, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21703
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1166, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 97, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7528

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Ancient script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰoːŋ
*l̥ʰoːŋ, *loŋʔ
*l̥ʰoːŋ
*l̥ʰoːŋʔ, *l'oːŋʔ
*l̥ʰoːŋʔ
*l̥ʰoːŋs
*l'oːŋ
*ljoŋs
*l̥ʰoŋ, *loŋ
*ɦljoŋ
*ɦljoŋ, *loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋʔ
*loŋ
*loŋs
*loŋs

Pictogram (象形) : a water bucket. Compare .

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *z(j)um ~ *zuŋ, provisionally set up by STEDT. Cognates to (OC loŋ) and (OC loŋ), outside Sinitic, Southern Bai zv³¹ (to use) Burmese သုံ (sum, to use), Ersu zi⁵⁵ (to use), Lahu yɛ̂ (to use), Pa'o Karen [script needed] (sūŋ, to use).

Sun, 1999 and Schuessler (2007) consider this word a cognate to Tibetan [script needed] (loŋs, use)

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ēng - vernacular;
  • iōng - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /yŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /yŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ʐuŋ⁵³/
/yŋ⁵³/
Jinan /yŋ²¹/
Qingdao /iŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /yuŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /yŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /yə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /yŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ỹn¹³/
Ürümqi /yŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /ioŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /yoŋ¹³/
Guiyang /ioŋ²¹³/
Kunming /ioŋ¹/
Nanjing /ioŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /iŋ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /yəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /yŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /ỹŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioŋ²³/
Suzhou /ioŋ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦioŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /jyɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /yʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /in¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ioŋ⁵⁵/
/ioŋ¹¹/
Xiangtan /in²¹/
Gan Nanchang /iuŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /iuŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʒuŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /joŋ²²/
Nanning /juŋ²²/
Hong Kong /juŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iɔŋ²²/
/iŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /øyŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /œyŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /eŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zoŋ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨoŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/jioŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ioŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/juawŋH/
Li
Rong
/ioŋH/
Wang
Li
/jĭwoŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯woŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yòng
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yòng
Middle
Chinese
‹ yowngH ›
Old
Chinese
/*loŋ-s/
English use (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15460
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*loŋs/

Definitions

  1. to use; to employ; to operate
  2. use; utility; usefulness
  3. (honorific) to eat; to drink
  4. expenses; outlay
    • /    fèiyòng   cost, expense
    •    yòng   expense
    •    jiāyòng   family expenses
  5. with; by; using

Synonyms

  • (to use):

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

References

  • New Nelson: 3721
  • Halpern: 2976
  • Halpern Learners: 1889
  • Heisig: 1181
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 2r3.1
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

Formerly used as man'yōgana for the back-vowel variant (甲類) of , romanized as yo1.

Noun

(hiragana よう, rōmaji )

  1. use (noun)
     () (ぎょう) (よう) (きょう)している () (さん)
    jigyō no ni kyō shite iru shisan
    assets provided for business use
  2. a task, business, an errand
     (こん) (ばん) (よう)があるから ()かける。
    Konban ga aru kara dekakeru.
    I'll be out this evening because I have an errand.

Suffix

(hiragana よう, rōmaji -yō)

  1. for the use of, for the purpose of
     () (てい) (よう) (せっ) (けん) (さん) () (よう)のブーツ
    katei sekken, sanpo no būtsu
    soap for household use, boots for [the purpose of] walking

Korean

Hanja

(yong) (hangeul )

  1. (쓸모): use, usage, utility, worth

Synonyms

Derived terms


Vietnamese

Han character

(dụng, dùng, giùm, rùng, dộng, đụng, giùng, rụng, vùng)

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